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[Agora Object] I 4963: Dedication

The inscribed blocks are a little west of the center of the wall, and as high above the limestone outcrop on which the wall is bedded as the stone-cutter could conviently reach. The total length of the ... 12 July 1937 ... bastion, west of the Propylaia.

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[Agora Object] A 915: String Course Block

Broken in two large and several small pieces. The inside edge and both ends are missing. The outer face is lightly stippled with at smoothed band along top and bottom. The under surface was rough-picked ... 1938 ... From the peculiar jointing at the one end of the block we may infer that the string course had the full width of the wall only beneath the windows and adjoining the doorways; elsewhere it would have been a narrow strip as in the Pinakotheke and the Propylaia. Hymettian marble.