Agora Object: I 303
Inventory Number:   I 303
Section Number:   Θ 50
Title:   Epigram Fragments
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Τμήματα βάσης μνημείου με επιγράμματα που ανέθεσαν οι Αθηναίοι σε ανάμνηση των νικών της Περσικούς Πολέμους. 490 – 480 π.Χ.
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Left corner of inscribed block.
Epigram commemorating the victory over the Persians.
Fragment Θ 50 a), top smooth; bottom, very fine picked; side, anathyrosis. Broken at back and right.
Face dressed with two smooth finished and two picked bands, on the former of which appears the inscription, four lines, in groups of two each.
Fragment Θ 50 b), the right side of this block appears in IG I2, no. 763.
Pentelic marble.
Brought from Epigraphical Museum to Agora Museum on 6th of February 1960 (EM 6739).
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Τμήμα επιγράμματος Μαραθώνος. Φέρει αποκρούσεις στη βάση. Η επιγραφή απλώνεται σε τέσσερις στίχους.
Context:   Found in the wall of the modern house 636/17, northeast of the Heliaia.
Negatives:   Leica, 2-386, 83-450, color slide
PD Number:   PD 1108, 2180
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.215, b) 0.215; Lett. H. a) 0.009-0.015, b) 0.009-0.015; P.W. a) 0.275, b) 0.465; P.Th. a) 0.16, b) 0.17
Date:   1933
Section:   Θ
Grid:   K 14
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 133.
    Guide (1976), p. 248.
    AgoraPicBk 10 (1966), fig. 2.
    Guide (1962), p. 163.
    Hesperia 14 (1945), p. 161, no. 19.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 225 ff.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 480 ff.
    IG I2,763 (frag. b).
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 133, p. 114
Drawing: PD 1108 (DA 5805)
Drawing: PD 2180 (DA 3791)
Images (24)
Card: I 303
Card: I 303