Agora Object: I 5484
Inventory Number:   I 5484
Section Number:   ΘΘ 304
Title:   Base
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed base.
Broken off at right. All faces preserved smoothly dressed. A large rectangular cutting in the top, rough picked inside.
Archaistic dedication in elegiacs to Deo by her attendant, Lysistrata.
Four lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Found in the west face of the late Roman Fortification, resting on back of base I 4713 (ΘΘ 93), south of the Eleusinion.
Negatives:   Leica, LXXII-37, 8-96
Dimensions:   H. 0.265; Lett. H. 0.01; P.W. 0.60; Th. 0.59; D. (of cutting) ca. 0.04
Chronology:   Ca. 455 B.C.
Date:   2 June 1938
Section:   ΘΘ
Grid:   T 21
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 24-25, fig. 9.
    Hesperia 81 (2012), p. 491, n. 71.
    Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 97, no. 18.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 207.
    Agora III, no. 226, p. 82.
    Agora XI, p. 121.
    Agora XVIII, no. A10.
    Agora XXXI, no. 1, p. 187, pl. 27.
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Card: I 5484