Inventory Number: | I 5986 | |
Section Number: | ΔΔ 244 | |
Title: | Dedication Fragment | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Inscribed fragment. Broken behind, above and at right. Left end and bottom dressed with toothed chisel. At back, the corner of a large rectangular cutting for insertion of a votive offering; the cutting goes the whole height of the block, clear to the bottom. Traces of red in "rho" of first line. Two lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon. Pentelic marble. | |
Context: | Found built into wall at end of southwest passage of Hellenistic cistern on the north slope of the Areopagus, at the point where it encroaches on Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. | |
Notebook Page: | 256, 349 ff. | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.089; Lett. H. 0.033; P.W. 0.295; P.Th. 0.103 | |
Chronology: | 5th. century B.C. | |
Date: | 3 May 1947 | |
Section: | ΔΔ | |
Grid: | ΔΔ:61/ΙΒ | |
Elevation: | -1.8--1.8m. | |
Masl: | -1.8m. | |
Deposit: | N 21:9 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 38, no. 23. | |
Agora XVIII, no. X773. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XVIII Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948) Deposit: N 21:9 Card: I 5986 |