Agora Object: I 2913
Inventory Number:   I 2913
Section Number:   Ξ 553
Title:   Prytany Decree Fragments
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragments.
The larger part of fragment Ξ 553 a) is in places badly discolored by burning; not so the smaller pieces which fit directly on to a discolored face of the other. The breaks thus occured before the burning.
The letters are carelessly carved; in only one case is there a clear cross bar in "alpha"; in no cases is the middle bar of "epsilon" put in; the "omicron", always small, is in some cases represented simply by two dots.
On fragments Ξ 553 a), e), f) and g), a simple face is preserved; on the others, part of the left side, as well as the inscribed face, remains.
Fragment Ξ 553 a) is mended from three pieces; fragment Ξ 553 b), from two.
On fragment Ξ 553 a), fifteen lines of the inscription preserved; on the others, from five lines to one letter.
Hymettian marble.
Cf. Hesperia 26 (1957), p. 41.
Context:   Found under late Roman wall, in east interior wall trench (?) of the Odeion.
Handling:   Handle and move with care as one of the breaks hsa been joined twice.
Negatives:   Leica, III-4, III-5
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.17, b) 0.091, c) 0.065, d) 0.03, e) 0.038, f) 0.035, g) 0.059; Lett. H. 0.005-0.006; W. a) 0.214, b) 0.076, c) 0.06, d) 0.033, e) 0.016, f) 0.026, g) 0.039; Th. a) 0.08, b) 0.031, c) 0.03, d) 0.035, e) 0.03, f) 0.028, g) 0.034
Material:   Marble
Chronology:   182/181-170-169 B.C.
Date:   23, 24 May 1935
Section:   Ξ
Grid:   Ξ:54/ΝΗ
Bibliography:   Shear (1994), p. 241, no. 70.
    Tracy (1990), p. 102.
    Hesperia Suppl. 1 (1937), p. 127, no. 70.
    Agora XV, no. 204, p. 168.
    IG II3,1,5, 1220.
Published Type:   Hesperia 26 (1957), p. 41.
References:   Publication: Agora XV
Publication: Hesperia 26 (1957)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 1 (1937)
Publication Page: Agora 15, s. 180, p. 168
Publication Page: Agora 15, s. 497, p. 485
Images (4)
Card: I 2913
Card: I 2913