Inventory Number: | I 166 | |
Section Number: | Ε 100 | |
Title: | Ephebic Decree | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Inscribed stele. Complete; at top flat with simple crowning moulding; narrow thin tongue projects at bottom for setting up. Once almost completely covered with inscription, now much waterworn. Two-thirds of the way down are three small wreaths with radiating leaves and traces of names within. Names new archon Antigenes and new secretary Sosandros Sosikratous Alopekethen and dates the previous archon Sosigenes in 172/1 B.C. Pentelic marble. Cf. Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 91. | |
Context: | Found built as a cover slab into the Great Drain, east of the Metroon. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 2-87, 2-88, 2-89, 2-232, 2-901 | |
Dimensions: | H. 1.653; Lett. H. 0.006; W. (at top) 0.447, (at bottom) 0.462, (at top below moulding) 0.41; Th. (at top) 0.16, (at bottom) 0.15, (at top below moulding) 0.135 | |
Chronology: | 171/0 B.C. | |
Date: | 12 February 1932 | |
Section: | Ε | |
Grid: | I 9 | |
Bibliography: | Tracy (1990), p. 74. | |
Hesperia 45 (1976), p. 287. | ||
Hesperia 15 (1946), p. 198, no. 40. | ||
Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 14, no. 17. | ||
IG II3,1,5, 1332. | ||
Published Type: | Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 91. | |
References: | Publications (4) Images (12) Notebook: Ε-1-BIS Notebook Page: Ε-1-BIS-69 (pp. 129-130) Notebook Page: Ε-1-BIS-103 Cards and Envelopes (4) |