Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

A SEPULCHRAL IXSCRTPTIOX FROM ATHENS.

On the 4th of last January a dealer in antiquities in Athens
brought me a fragment of Pentelic marble bearing a metrical
sepulchral inscription. He said that it was found near the Hagia
Trias church, i. e., in the Ceramicus. The stone is smooth on the
face and on the sides, rough on the back and broken off in an
irregular horizontal line on the top and bottom. The top fracture
runs through the middle of the first line, leaving, however, a part
of every letter, so that it is quite legible. Four letters in the
other lines are slightly defaced, but not erased. The bottom frac-
ture runs about .015 m. below the last line of the inscription.
The stone is, in general, .06 m. thick, .15 m. high. At the bot-
tom the width is .24'6 m., at the top 242 ; the width is the width
originally given by the stone-dresser. It will be noticed that it
tapers toward the top. There are no traces of color. I bought
the stone, after convincing myself of its indubitable genuineness.
I gave it lately to the Rational Museum at Athens.

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This copy of the inscription is made directly from the stone,
being traced through a paper impression and compared afterward

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