(ie, 351/0). - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA 165
16 [v ravrEsE HA+ 'TorEpLova pyvpov, o-rai/-aov] rov-[ro AAAAFFap
stg, a-raoj8 ok
17 [avieg PA- 1omptov apyvOpov) Jpp -a0pv, aOv Tovro]
AAA [ rPFH+. [vacat]
4 (Plate 56)-. Fragment of Pentelic marble, with the back and part of the left edge
preserved, found on May 26, 1937, in a Byzantine context in a pithos on the north
slope of the Acropolis east of the Late Roman Fortification (U 25).
Height, 0.13 m.; width, 0.135 m.; thickness, 0.09 m. (original).
Height of letters in lines 1-2, 0.009 m.
Inv. No. I 4923.
The inscription is stoichedon, with a square chequer pattern in which the units
measure 0.013 m.
fin. saec. V a.
?
v ai1[
V fbEpO [ ? -
v 44E$% h4E[Kr - --]
vacat
This does not appear to be related to any financial document published in I.G., I2,
and its nature is quite uncertain. The shape of the fractured edges shows that the
original width may have been very much more than that of the surviving portion of
the inscribed face. Only one certain letter is preserved in line 1; in line 2 we have a
choice between some form of the verb 4EpEtv, simple or compound, and some case of
the uncommon Attic name Ev'o4pos (cf. P.A., 6043-6045). In the latter event, a
possible identification would be with Eupheros, father of that Prepis who was secretary
of the Boule in 421/0 (I.G., P2, 81); and he may well have been the same man
who contributed towards the cost of the Parthenon in 438/7 (I.G., 2, 348, line 81).
But here again it is possible that the reference is to the son, [Ev1] cE'po being a patronymic.
In line 3 the numeral-signs are compressed so that three occupy approximately
the space of two letters in the line above, and following the sum of 23 (or more?)
staters we may confidently restore either, hE [KTE] or he'[KTat]. The mention of this
currency, together with the crowding of the symbols in line 3, suggests a date towards
the end of the fifth century, which would suit better the suggestion that the son of
Eupheros is the man mentioned above, and not the father, if it is assumed that we
have a proper name in line 2.
5 (Plate 56). Fragment of Pentelic marble, broken on all sides and at the back,
found on March 31, 1938, in a Byzantine context southeast of the Market Square
over the Panathenaic Way (S 17).