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| Inventory Number: | I 7557 | |
| Section Number: | ΒΓ 1877 | |
| Title: | Monument | |
| Category: | Inscriptions | |
| Description: | Inscribed stele. Complete stele, mended from two joining pieces. Right edge of front stained and water worn; right side heavily water worn. Top carved to receive painted floral ornament (?); beneath it, a fascia and ovals on front and sides. Left side worked with claw chisel; back left rough; bottom cut off rough without tenon. On front, inscribed text of law concerning 8% tax in kind on grain from islands. Archon Sokratides. Sixty-one lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon. Letter spacing: 0.014m.; line spacing: 0.014m. Pentelic marble. | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Found built into east wall of the Great Drain. Laid as highest course of wall just beneath corner slabs. | |
| Notebook Page: | 3729 | |
| Negatives: | 86-21-31(32, 33), 88-431, 88-432, 88-433, color slide | |
| Dimensions: | H. 1.105; Lett. H. (line 1) 0.01, (lines 2-61) 0.007; W. (at top moulding) 0.442, (below moulding) 0.418, (at bottom) 0.435; Th. 0.091 | |
| Chronology: | 374/3 B.C. | |
| Date: | 21 July 1986 | |
| Section: | ΒΓ | |
| Grid: | J/4-4/15,16 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 85 (2016), p. 162, n. 2, fig. 1. | |
| Hesperia 75 (2006), p. 104. | ||
| Hesperia Suppl. 29 (1998), figs. 1, 2, 3. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 75 (2006) Publication: Hesperia 85 (2016) Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 29 (1998) Images (8) Card: I 7557 Card: I 7557 |
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