Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora is written by Dorothy B. Thompson. This sculpture book is published by American School of Classical Studies. This book contains lot of sculptured figures of humans and animals which was found in Agora during the period from Athens to the end of Roman period. More specifically this book contains black and white photographs of elegant ivory figures of apollos to small horses recovered from children's graves. Since earliest times men have loved to make small likeness of themselves and of their animals.
The ancient Greeks kept images of the gods in their houses to watch over the inmates; they placed statuettes in graves to please the dead, and they offered others to the nymphs of a spring so that water might flow fresh in the fountain. Such ideas lingered long and sustained a craft that gradually turned from religious to artistic preoccupations and from the production of primitive images to true miniature sculpture.This booklet offers a selection of such miniatures from the excavations conducted by the American School of Classical studies in the ancient Agora of Athens. Several supplementary pieces from the School's excavation in the assembly place on the Pnyx have also been included...
The development of these minor crafts may here be traced from the 14th century B.C. (Mycenaean Period) to the 5th century A.D. (Late Roman Period). Mycenaean artists were experts in carving ivory, of which one example is shown. In contrast their clay figurines are naive, handmade, solid without features. These simple types continued until the 7th century B.C when the makers of terracotta figurines (called coroplasts) began to use moulds, at first for the heads alone, then for complete figures; sometimes the parts of the body were moulded separately and variously combined...
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