Agora Object: I 6524
Inventory Number:   I 6524
Section Number:   ΣΑ 1747
Title:   Decree Fragment
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragment of stele.
The top akroterion and some of the bottom below the setting line broken away; otherwise intact.
An attempt was made in antiquity to break up the stele, and a narrow channel was run about half way across the face between the relief and the first line of the inscription; another, shorter line was started a little higher up. Fortunately neither of these channels coused any serious damage.
The stele has a pedimental top. The moulding below was decorated with a painted egg and dart, clear traces of which remain.
On the relief at the top of the stele are portrayed a seated man (Demos) who is being crowned by a woman (Democracy?) who stands beside him.
Decree of the Nomothetai; archonship of Phrynichos.
Twenty-nine lines of the inscription preserved, with thirty-six letters in each line except line fifteen which has only thirty-five; stoichedon.
Pentelic marble.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Ψηφισματικό ανάγλυφο, από πεντελικό μάρμαρο, κατά της τυραννίας. Φέρει παράσταση καθιστής μορφής (Δήμος), ο οποίος στεφανώνεται από γυναικεία μορφή, που στέκεται πίσω του (Δημοκρατία). Η επιγραφή απλώνεται σε δεκαπέντε στίχους (337 - 336 π.Χ.).
Context:   Found in the filling of the Square Building in terrace opposite Pier 16, under the northern end of the Stoa of Attalos.
Handling:   Protect surfaces and edges from abrasion.
Notebook Page:   2641
Negatives:   Leica, LIX-50, 80-94, XXXVII-59, XXXVII-60, XXXVII-61, XXXVII-77, 87-217, 87-220, color slide
PD Number:   PD 748
Dimensions:   P.H. 1.57; Lett. H. 0.005; W. (of stele above) 0.41, (below) 0.43; Th. (above) ca. 0.10, (below) ca. 0.12
Chronology:   337/336 B.C.
Date:   3 May 1952
Section:   ΣΑ
Grid:   Q 9
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 32, 151, fig. 91.
    Hesperia 82 (2013), pp. 440, 448, 449, n. 35.
    Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 107, fig. 113.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 48, fig. 52.
    AgoraPicBk 4 (2004), p. 18, fig. 20, front page.
    Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 454, fig. 7, n. 18, p. 463, table 1.
    Baumer (1997), p. 78, no. 569.
    Hesperia 64 (1995), p. 121, n. 1.
    Lawton (1995), pl. 38.
    Tracy (1995), p. 8, no. 7.
    Guide (1990), p. 249, fig. 153
    AM-BH 13 (1989), no. A 97, pl. 30.
    AM 103 (1988), p. 140, no. 108.
    Camp (1986), p. 154.
    LIMC III (1986), p. 373, n. 7.
    AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), p. 21, fig. 42.
    Palagia (1980), pl. 43.
    Guide (1976), p. 188, fig. 98.
    AJA 71 (1967), no. 1, pl. 15, fig. 7.
    Guide (1962), pp. 123-124, pl. VIII.
    Mossè (1962), p. 282, no. 3.
    AgoraPicBk 4 (1960), fig. 29.
    Pouilloux (1960), pp. 121-124.
    AJP 79 (1958), pp. 71-73.
    Πολεμων ΣΤ'(1957), p. ΚΗ f'.
    Webster (1956b), p. 49, pl. 8.
    TAPA 86 (1955), pp. 103-128.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 51-53, pl. 20a.
    JHS 73 (1953), p. 111, pl. 1.
    Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 355, no. 5, pl. 90.
    Νεα Εστια (11 July 1952), τευχος 6.
    Προοδευτικη Αλλαγη (εφημεριδα, 5 April 1953).
    Agora III, no. 386, pp. 126-127.
    Agora XIV, no. 173, pp. 61, 102, pl. 53.
    Agora XXVIII, no. 28, p. 134.
    IG II-III3,1,2, 320.
References:   Publications (12)
Publication Pages (12)
Drawing: PD 748 (DA 5808)
Images (29)
Notebook: Β-14
Notebook Page: Β-14-91 (pp. 2734-2735)
Card: I 6524
Card: I 6524
Card: I 6524