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| Inventory Number: | I 5984 | |
| Section Number: | ΟΟ 152 | |
| Title: | Imperial Letter Fragment | |
| Category: | Inscriptions | |
| Description: | Inscribed fragment. Rough picked back preserved; broken on all sides. Part of an imperial letter from Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Thirty-two lines of the inscription preserved. Pentelic marble. ADDENDA Bottom of this piece joins I 64 and I 815, published Hesperia Suppl. 6 (1941), Sacred Gerusia, as no. 24b (p. 108), with the two letters of the text to the last line of new fragment is same line as line 8 of published fragment. A piece in the Epigraphical Museum, EM 2763, Hesperia Suppl. 6 (1941), no. 25a (cast at Agora) joins new fragment at right, with line 12 of new fragment carrying on to line 1 of published text. With I 10. | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Found in early Byzantine destruction debris east of the Great Drain, in the industrial area. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, XXVIII-73 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.445; Lett. H. ca. 0.008; W. ca. 0.16; Th. 0.065 | |
| Chronology: | 178 A.D. | |
| Date: | 30 May 1947 | |
| Section: | ΟΟ | |
| Grid: | ΟΟ:81/ΛΔ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 30 (1961), pp. 231-236, no. 31a, pl. 40. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 30 (1961) Image: 2008.16.0678 (XXVII-73) Image: 2012.51.1242 (XXVII-73) Notebook Page: ΟΟ-2-86 (pp. 363-364) Notebook Page: ΟΟ-2-87 (pp. 365-366) Card: I 5984 Card: I 5984 |
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