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| Inventory Number: | I 5183 | |
| Section Number: | Σ 1611 | |
| Title: | Building Block | |
| Category: | Inscriptions | |
| Description: | Block inscribed with mason's mark. Part of top and of front preserved; right end re-cut; other faces broken. Along front, 0.33m. preserved of dressed exposed face; then an anathyrosis (?) band 0.13m. wide, and 0.08m. of picked surface, to the recut edge; a block to tie in with another wall. Mason's marks on the top: "Β, Δ". Stain as if from color, on the anathyrosis surface Careful work; probably belonging with the temple of Ares series. Pentelic marble. Cf. A 238. | |
| Notes: | Stored with A 238 series. | |
| Context: | Found in late Roman Road Fill, between the Stoa of Attalos and the Gymnasium north porch; with coins nos. 5-18 for the day. | |
| Negatives: | Leica | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.186; Lett. H. (of B) 0.071, (of Δ) 0.063; L. 0.748; W. 0.324 | |
| Date: | 25 January 1938 | |
| Section: | Σ | |
| Grid: | Σ:41-47/ΝΑ-ΝΖ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 32-33, 51, fig. 17. | |
| Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:A 238 | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 28 (1959) Image: 2004.01.0480 (HAT 58-200) Image: 2012.53.1162 (LX-67) Card: I 5183 Card: I 5183 |
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