Agora Object: I 5436
Inventory Number:   I 5436
Section Number:   ΙΙ 430
    ΘΘ 296
Title:   Dedication Fragment
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragment.
Head missing, and part of right leg; minor fractures.
The eagle is standing, his left foot advanced. Feathers carved in shallow but naturalistic style. In bottom surface of plinth, a deep pin-hole.
Dedication to Demeter and Kore; "The two Goddess".
The inscription runs around the face of the roughly oval plinth.
One line of the inscription preserved.
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   (ΙΙ 430) T 21
(ΘΘ 296) T 21
Context:   (ΙΙ 430), found in filling of the late Roman Fortification south of the Eleusinion, north of the Hypapanti gate.
(ΘΘ 296), found in filling of the late Roman Fortification, south of the Eleusinion.
Negatives:   Leica, 8-129, 84-12-12
Dimensions:   P.H. (with plinth) 0.34; W. 0.14
Date:   (ΙΙ 430) 9 May 1938
(ΘΘ 296) 21 May 1938
Section:   ΙΙ
    ΘΘ
Grid:   T 21
Bibliography:   Hesperia 10 (1941), p. 258, no. 62.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 208, fig.6.
    Agora III, no. 228, p. 83.
    Agora XVIII, no. V590.
    Agora XXXI, no. 24, p. 193, pl.28.
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Pages (7)
Image: 2012.27.0004 (8-129)
Image: 2012.74.0971 (84-12-12)
Image: 2004.01.0742 (HAT 59-21)
Card: I 5436
Card: I 5436