Inventory Number: | I 217 | |
Section Number: | ΣΤ 473 | |
Title: | Decree Fragment | |
Category: | Inscriptions | |
Description: | Upper left portion of inscribed stele. Mended from two fragments. Back rough picked. Top shows marks of rough pointed tooth chisel, over whole surface preserved. Left side, similar (?) marks with shallow irregular vertical groove near front edge, and fairly smooth band along back edge (surface damaged). Inscribed surface finished with pointed tooth chisel: effect of cross hatching. Deme decree passed by the men of Piraeus. The inscription begins 0.055m. down from top edge; no uninscribed margin to left. Stoichedon. Hymettian marble. | |
Context: | Found in the wall of a well in the modern pit F, at the north foot of Areopagus. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 2-95 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.475; Lett. H. 0.009; W. 0.385, (of band) 0.02; Th. 0.11 | |
Chronology: | Early 3rd. century B.C. | |
Date: | 15 April 1932 | |
Section: | ΣΤ | |
Grid: | H 17 | |
Elevation: | 64.00m. | |
Masl: | 64m. | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 44, no. 33. | |
Agora XVI, no. 160, p. 228. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XVI Publication: Hesperia 3 (1934) Publication Page: Agora 16, s. 246, p. 228 Publication Page: Agora 16, s. 517, p. 499 Image: 2008.16.0034 (2-95) Image: 2012.20.0264 (2-95) Card: I 217 Card: I 217 |