Agora Object: I 2539
Inventory Number:   I 2539
Section Number:   Ο 321
    Ο 495
    ΣΑ 161
    ΣΑ 808
Title:   Kleroterion Fragments
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Fragments of inscription.
Prytany decree; Kleroterion.
Four non-joining fragments Ο 321a-d (a-d) . Stoichedon.
Fragment O 321 (a), part of toothed left side preserved; otherwise broken. A blank space ca. 0.03m. wide between edge of stone and letters.
Fragment O 321 (b), mended from two pieces. Inscribed face only preseved. Although none of the original back face appears to be preserved, there are cut in the back vertical columns of short horizontal lines.
Fragment O 321 (c), mended from two pieces. Inscribed face only preserved.
Fragment O 321 (d), inscribed face only preserved; traces of letters only.
Fragment O 495 (e), mended from two pieces. The start of a moulding above.
Inscribed face only preserved. Parts of eighteen lines of the inscription preserved; stoichedon.
Joins with I 4500.
Fragment ΣΑ 161 (f), broken all around, except the back with four rows of slots.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved.
Joins to fragment Ο 321b), at left below.
Fragment ΣΑ 808 (g), inscribed face preserved, with seven lines, and back, with five rows of slots.
Joins with fragment Ο 495e) and I 2716.
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   a) (Ο 321a) 45/Θ-Ι
b) (Ο 321b) 45/Θ-Ι
c) (Ο 321c) 45/Θ-Ι
d) (Ο 321d) 45/Θ-Ι
e) (Ο 405) 64/ΙΔ
a) (Ο 321a) M 12
b) (Ο 321b) M 12
c) (Ο 321c) M 12
d) (Ο 321d) M 12
e) (Ο 405) N 12
g) (ΣΑ 808) Q 10
Context:   a-d) (Ο 321a-d), found in the wall of Turkish pit, in the southern part of the Odeion.
e) (Ο 405), found in late Roman destruction debris, in the southern part of the Odeion.
f) (ΣΑ 161), found in the area of the Stoa of Attalos; exact context unlnown.
g) (ΣΑ 808), found in the tower of the late Roman Fortification, at the central part of the Stoa of Attalos.
Negatives:   Leica, 6-50, II-93, II-97, XX-71, XX-72, LXXVIII-84, XXXVII-88, 83-273
PD Number:   PD 1227-52, 1227-63, 1227-34, 1227-31, 1227-9, 1227-10
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.265, b) 0.325, c) 0.365, d) 0.15, e) 0.24, f) 0.215, g) 0.29; Lett. H. (fragments a-c) 0.008, e) 0.008, f) 0.006; W. a) 0.212, b) 0.23, c) 0.20, d) ca. 0.06, e) 0.185, f) 0.313, g) 0.26; Th. a) 0.085, b) 0.083, c) 0.05, d) 0.03, e) 0.045, f) 0.093, g) 0.08; P.H. (fragment g, as joined with fragment e) 0.495; P.W. (fragment g, as joined with fragment e) 0.32; P.Th. (fragment g, as joined with fragment e) 0.095
Chronology:   159/8 or 158/7 B.C.
Date:   a-d) (Ο 321a-d) 1 March 1935
e) (Ο 405) 27 March 1935
f) (ΣΑ 161) February 1936
g) (ΣΑ 808) 18 October 1949
Section:   Ο
    ΣΑ
Grid:   Ο:45/Θ-Ι
    Ο:64/ΙΔ
    M 12
    N 12
    Q 10
Bibliography:   Tracy (1990), p. 84.
    Hesperia 26 (1957), pp. 42, 72, 74 f., pl. 14.
    Hesperia 19 (1950), p. 336.
    Hesperia 15 (1946), p. 140, no. 3.
    Hesperia Suppl. 1 (1937), p. 142, no. 79.
    Agora III, no. 121, p. 57.
    Agora XV, no. 220, p. 179.
    Agora XXVIII, no. 333, p. 234-235.
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