| 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 |