Agora Object: I 4779
Inventory Number:   I 4779
Section Number:   Β 1793
Title:   Marble Fragments
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragments.
Five fragments, inscribed on at least two adjacent faces by different hands.
Fragment Β 1793 a), top only preserved, and dressed flat.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment Β 1793 b), mended from two pieces. A corner fragment, rubbed smooth.
On face A, four lines of the inscription preserved; on face B six lines, with one letter on each.
Fragment Β 1793 c), top preserved; smooth dressed and not quite parallel to the line of the lettering. Face B only preserved.
Four lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment Β 1793 d), broken all around and behind. Face B only preserved; traces of red paint in the letters.
Five lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment Β 1793 e), top roughly bevelled in a reworking; otherwise broken all around.
Three lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble.
ADDENDA From the same stele as I 729 (Z 473).
Fragment B 4779 b, not found on Summer 1994.
Context:   a) (Β 1793), found in a disturbed context of the 4th. century B.C.-5th. century A.D., northeast of the Tholos.
b-e) (Β 1793), found in a disturbed context of the 6th. century B.C.-5th. century A.D., northeast of the Tholos.
Negatives:   Leica, 94-54-7, 94-54-5, 94-54-9, 94-54-6
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.035, b) 0.10, c) 0.05, d) 0.052, e) 0.028; Lett. H. 0.01; W. a) 0.04, (fragment b, on face A) 0.033, (fragment b on face B) 0.019, c) 0.089, d) 0.075, e) 0.06; Th. a) 0.02, c) 0.017, d) 0.022, e) 0.02
Date:   a) (Β 1793) 29 April 1937
b-e) (Β 1793) 12 May 1937
Section:   Β
Grid:   H 10-11
Bibliography:   Hesperia 64 (1995), pp. 317, 322, nos. 1a, 1c, 1d, 1e, 2, pls. 63, 64.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 64 (1995)
Images (4)
Notebook: Β-12
Notebook Pages (4)
Card: I 4779
Card: I 4779