Agora Object: I 4266
Inventory Number:   I 4266
Section Number:   ΟΕ 221
Title:   Honorary Decree
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed stele.
Honorary decree of the archonship of Nikias in praise of the archon Euthios (285/4 B.C.) and his parhedroi.
Forty-one lines in all preserved; stoichedon thirty-one, except line thirty-four, with thirty-two letters.
The stele to be set up (line 38) in front of the Synedrio.
Hymettian marble.
Notes:   Originally in the Upper Colonnade, moved to the basement 2012.
Context:   Used as a cover slab above a late Roman drain in the north room of the Hellenistic Metroon.
Notebook Page:   404
Negatives:   Leica, 7-360, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 1.31; Lett. H. 0.007; W. (at top of face) 0.418, (at bottom of face) 0.517; Th. (at edge of top) 0.10, (at edge of bottom) 0.13; L. (of tenon) 0.08
Chronology:   284/3 B.C.
Date:   7 July 1936
Section:   ΟΕ
Grid:   H 11
Bibliography:   Tracy (1995), pp. 164-166, fig. 18.
    Camp (1986), p. 100.
    Guide (1976), p. 286.
    Guide (1962), p. 198.
    Hesperia 7 (1938), no. 18, pp. 100-109.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 197, 215, nos. 1, 4.
    Agora III, no. 386, p. 122-125.
    Agora XVI, no. 181, p. 258, pl. 18.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Pages (4)
Image: 2000.02.0506 (Slide Sheet: 04:08)
Image: 2012.26.0093 (7-360)
Image: 2010.21.0761
Notebook: ΟΕ-3
Notebook Page: ΟΕ-3-12 (pp. 403-404)
Card: I 4266