Agora Object: I 4922
Inventory Number:   I 4922
Section Number:   ΘΘ 254
Title:   Base Fragment
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragment of statue base.
Mouldings about top and bottom; top ones carried around the two sides; bottom ones in simplified form about left side, not at right. Back surface rough picked.
Cuttings on top for bronze statue; iron dowel set in lead below heels. Shallow bedding for right foot ca. 0.17X0.10m., no bedding but scratched line for left foot.
Civica barbarus, consul, known as friend of Herodes.
Seven lines of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. Hesperia 8 (1938), p. 328.
Graindor (1930), pp. 157-158.
Context:   Found in late Roman Fortification, south of the Eleusinion.
Notebook Page:   157-158
Negatives:   Leica, 7-260
Dimensions:   H. 1.25; Lett. H. 0.035-0.045, (line 5) 0.022; W. 0.615; Th. 0.63
Chronology:   157 A.D.
Date:   26 May 1937
Section:   ΘΘ
Grid:   ΘΘ:34/ΛΑ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 26 (1957), p. 220, no. 78.
    Agora XVIII, no. H439.
Published Type:   Hesperia 8 (1938), p. 328.
    Graindor (1930), pp. 157-158.
References:   Publication: Agora XVIII
Publication: Hesperia 26 (1957)
Images (6)
Card: I 4922
Card: I 4922