Four photographs.

The first three photographs are examples of antefixes from Greek buildings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These antefixes joined the tiles together as well as provided decoration.

The fourth photograph is a detail of the…

In 267 AD the Heruli, a Germanic tribe from beyond the Danube, broke through Rome's defenses and made their way down into Greece, where they sacked the city, completely destroying the Library of Pantainos and other buildings. As a result, the…

This is how the site of the Library of Pantainos looks today from Pikilis Street.

Between the trees can be seen part of the Herulian Wall, created from the spoila of the ruined buildings after the Heruli broke through the empire's defenses and…

Four photographs taken from Pikiis Street, the modern road, which covers the ancient road running between the Roman and Athenian agoras.

Photograph one is a view of the north stoa of the Library of Pantainos, which is marked on the right by the…

Two photographs. This is a capital from an Ionic column of the 5th century BC. The columns of the stoas of the Library of Pantainos were believed to have been Ionian columns.

The Ionic capital would have looked something like this, and was…

These three images illustrate how the reconstructed Library of Pantainos and the surrounding area might have looked like during Roman rule. These are taken from the Ancient Athens 3D web site.

The first image is a raised view of the library with…

Two photographs.

This is the view from Pikilis Street, looking at an angle towards the agora. The north stoa rooms are in the foreground. The peristyle, which nearly all Greco-Roman libraries had, allowed visitors to use natural light to read the…

Two photographs. One several models of the Athenian agora in the Stoa of Attalos. This model of the Library of Pantainos is taken from two directions.

In the first photograph, the view is from the southwest agora. Beside the library is the Stoa of…

Looking towards the Roman agora, standing on top of the wall covering the north stoa of the Library of Pantainos. In the distance, the pediment over the entrance to the Roman agora can be seen in the middle of the photograph.

The remains of the roadway between the Library of Pantainos (right) and the Stoa of Attalos (left). This roadway led to the Roman agora. Between the wall on the right and the wall holding up Pikilis Street in the upper left, a series of poles…