Agora Object: I 1257
Inventory Number:   I 1257
Section Number:   Β 66
    ΚΚ 1190
    ΚΚ 1261
Title:   Epitaph Fragments
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Fragments of Latin inscription.
Grave stone; Tweddell's Epitaph.
Fragment Β 66 (a), back rough picked; otherwise broken.
Five letters preserved.
Fragment ΚΚ 1190c (b), inscribed face only preserved.
One line of the inscription remains.
Fragment ΚΚ 1190c (c), inscribed face and rough picked back preserved.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Fragment ΚΚ 1261a (d), broken to right and to left; top and bottom roughly worked; the back is rough picked; the front smooth and polished but not level.
The slab was probably made by sawing in two an ancient block; the rough picking on the back seems certainly to be ancient.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment ΚΚ 1261b (e), the lettered face (0.065X0.05m.) only remains, and the rough picked back.
Part of one letter remains.
Pentelic marble.
ADDENDA With I 406, I 1257 d, I 3523.
EM 5347 a-b, EM 5350, now on outer wall of English church, belong; also EM 3929.
Fragment KK 1190 a, belongs to I 1111.
Notes:   a) (Β 66) 6/ΚΕ
a) (Β 66) G 10
b) (ΚΚ 1190b) E 7 c) (ΚΚ 1190c) E 7
Context:   a) (Β 66), found in late well, in the south porch of the New Bouleuterion.
b-c) (ΚΚ 1190b and ΚΚ 1190c), found in late context, in the cellar of Hephaisteion.
d) (ΚΚ1261a), found in a marble pile, east of the Hephaisteion.
e) (ΚΚ 1261b), found in disturbed context, in the area of the Hephaisteion.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.15, b) 0.23, c) 0.125, d) 0.53, e) 0.24; Lett. H. a) 0.032, d) 0.033, e) ca. 0.033; W. a) 0.153, b) 0.125, c) 0.145, d) 0.36, e) 0.20; Th. a) 0.132, b) 0.12, c) 0.14, d) 0.15, e) 0.20
Material:   Marble
Date:   a) (Β 66) 31 January 1934
b) (ΚΚ 1190b) 9 March 1939
c) (ΚΚ 1190c) 9 March 1939
d) (ΚΚ1261a) 14 June 1939
e) (ΚΚ 1261b) 14 June 1939
Section:   Β
    ΚΚ
Grid:   Β:6/ΚΕ
    G 10
    E 7
Bibliography:   Hesperia 15 (1946), p. 240, no. 75.
    Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), pp. 22, 23, fig. 8.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 15 (1946)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941)
Notebooks (4)
Notebook Pages (5)
Card: I 1257
Card: I 1257