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

FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA 171
The writing is stoichedon, with a square chequer pattern in which the units
measure ca. 0.007 m. The original right face and back are preserved, with a possible
anathyrosis below (B.D.M.), but the greater portion of the inscribed face has been
chiselled out to form a panel with a star in relief, perhaps as a coffer block, leaving
three to four columns of letters on the right and four lines below.
Fortunately, enough survives in the last four lines to enable us to identify the
contents as comprising miscellaneous dedications, including silver objects, from the
years before and during 352/1 B.C. To anticipate the relevant commentary, the clue
to the identification is found in the last preserved line:o-Ta0aO [o] v : I(: EbKTf [- - -]
for this is clearly the same entry as [oT]aO ICK:E1 VKTr[- - -] in I.G., II2, 1517 A,
lines 74-75, which is followed by Ta&E; e o[dEXXov a'pXo : avErTE'O'] (i.e., 351/0). It
is regrettable that only about a quarter of this column is preserved, but even so it helps
us to some extent in restoring the new fragment, where at most only four letters have
survived at the ends of lines 1-33. Observing that in I.G., 12, 1517, we have in this
area TraO: and apxo: (or a'pXov:), but o-TaOaLv and aLpXovros (as a presumed restoration)
in our new fragment, and that the former has 31 letters to the line as against 29,
we find that some cross-restoration is possible in lines 17-24, 28-29, and 33-37, where
the contents seem mostly to be identical, but at other points there seem to have been
several additional entries in the new fragment.
In lines 1-17 it is safer to suggest only a minimum of restorations, especially as
some of the surviving letters are either doubtful or only partially preserved. Probably
eleven lines have been obliterated by damage to the stone above line 1, and no doubt
there were many more lines on the missing portion above the fracture. After collating
a copy kindly supplied by Meritt with a squeeze and photograph, my reading of the
text is as follows:
a. 355/4-352/1 a. ITOIX. 29
25 _ 8Ito P
II?] ~~~~~~~~ov:
5
[-----------------]
[------------------]vira
KEP
?]----------------- - ovy
?] ~~~~~~~-vira
[?~~~~~~~~~K
10 r --20 1' ara
--------erF-------a PX?
IV7I19 _ 22 1
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