Agora Object: I 2636
Inventory Number:   I 2636
Section Number:   Ξ 197
    Ξ 229
    ΒΖ 1
Title:   Marble Fragments
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Many small fragments of an inscription.
Treaty between Athens and Sikyon.
Fragments (Ξ 197) and (Ξ 229), all have inscribed face only preserved, except fragment m), on which the original right edge may be preserved.
Fragment a), mended from seven pieces.
About twenty-five lines of the inscription preserved.
Fragment Ξ 197b joins with a fragment of Ξ 229, to make I 2336b.
Fragment l), is mended from three scraps; the others are single pieces, inscribed stoichedon.
On fragments b) and c), about fourteen lines of the inscription preserved.
On fragment d), six lines of the inscription preserved.
On fragments e-m), one letter, to parts of nine lines.
Fragment (ΒΖ 1), preserves upper right part of a large pedimental stele, broken at left and below. Back rough picked, top and sides finished with a claw.
Preserves part of upper right corner acroterion.
Inscription preserved in large letters on raised band below tympanum, flattened ovolo below. Parts of seventeen lines of text preserved.
Hymettian marble.
Notes:   (Ξ 197) 69/ΝΕ
(Ξ 229) 69/ΝΗ
(Ξ 197) N 10
(Ξ 229) N 10
(ΒΖ 1) J/1-3/3
Levels:
(Ξ 197) 58.00m.
(Ξ 229) 58.00m.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   (Ξ 197) and (Ξ 229), found in many fragments along the west edge of the Panathenaic Way; most of them in a context of the 3rd. century A.D.
(ΒΖ 1), found in west wall of Flour Mill, east wall of the section.
Notebook Page:   (ΒΖ 1) 15
Negatives:   Leica, 6-88, 7-457, 8-457, VI-71, VI-72, VI-73, 93-60-24, 93-58-25, 93-60-5, 93-60-4, 93-58-26, 93-60-27, 93-60-27, 93-60-2, 93-60-3, 93-58-27, 93-60-12, 93-60-13, 93-58-31, 93-60-16, 93-60-17, 93-60-18, 93-60-19, 93-60-20, 93-60-21, 93-60-14, 93-60-15, 93-60-22, 93-60-23, 93-58-30, 93-60-10, 93-60-11, 93-58-28, 93-60-8, 93-60-9, 93-58-29, 93-58-32, 93-58-33
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. a) 0.328, b) 0.20, (fragments e-m) 0.105-0.032; H. c) 0.145; Lett. H. (fragment BZ 1) 0.006-0.008; W. d) 0.125; P.H. (fragment ΒΖ 1) 0.34; P.W. (fragment ΒΖ 1) 0.238; P.Th. (fragment ΒΖ 1) 0.15
Chronology:   302 B.C.
Date:   (Ξ 197) 18 March 1935
(Ξ 229) 23 March 1935
(ΒΖ 1) 20 August 1988
Section:   Ξ
    ΒΖ
Grid:   Ξ:69/ΝΕ
    Ξ:69/ΝΗ
    N 10
    J/1-3/3
Elevation:   58.00m.
Masl:   58m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 72 (2003), pp. 273-275, 468, fig. 40.
    Tracy (1995), pp. 140, 146.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 35, 37, no. 9.
    Agora III, no. 571, pp. 173-174.
    Agora XVI, no. 115, p. 182, pl. 13.
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