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Two photographs.

Damaged statue and base of the personification of the Iliad, probably from the Library of Pantainos.

Scylla, Aiolos, the Sirens, and Polyphemus are depicted on the cuirass. Thought to be from the Library of Pantainos.

Head of a statue that was once thought to portray Titus Flavius Pantainos as a priest of the imperial cult. The priest wears a tripartite diadem: rolled fillet, myrtle wreath and crown, decorated with eight small busts of curiassed emperors.

Two photographs, showing the fragment of a marble stele with the library regulations. This is the only known surviving rules of an ancient library.

Translation: "No book is to be taken out because we have sworn an oath. [The library] is to be open…

This is a view of the Roman road between the Stoa of Attalos and the Library of Pantainos, looking towards the agora. To the right is part of a statue base. To the left in the background can be seen the beginning of the Herulian Wall that had been…

Three photographs.

The first photograph shows the library proper behind the stoa with a storefront shop. This room is believed to have housed a cult statue of Trajan; the white, vertical stone to the right of the entrance contains the…

These steps lead down from the north stoa of the Library of Pantainos into the street between the library and the Stoa of Attalos.

The plan shows the layout of the Library of Pantainos and its north and east stoas. There is a central peristyle court, common in Roman libraries where natural light could be used to read.

Two column bases mark the end of the north stoa of the LIbrary of Pantainos. Today, what would have been inside the stoa (and perhaps some shops) are benches for weary visitors to the agora.

The marble archway of the Stoa of Attalos has three column capitals blocking it as an entrance/exit. Across the paved road is a wall marking where the north stoa of the Library of Pantainos would have been.