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Excerpt from American Journal of Archaeology, 1932, Vol. 18 This inscription is recorded on a block of Pentelic marble, broken on both sides and at the bottom and with the original surface only on top. Height, 0.385 m., breadth, 0.14 m., thickness, ca. 0.113 m. (the original thickness cannot be determined). Letters, 0.006 m. high, spacing, 0.01 m (except in the first line, where the letters are slightly more crowded). Between prescript and inventory there is a vacant space 0.052 m. wide. The stone was found on the Acropolis at Athens in a mediaeval wall (marked 5 in plate 1, Cavvadias und Kawerau, Die Ausgrabung der Akropolis). A photograph (Fig. 1), the text printed in capitals, and the text with restorations are here given in as close juxtaposition as possible. Line 4. Slight traces of a circular letter at the end of the line leave no doubt of the genitive ending. Line 5. The first letter is a part of an Y. The middle bar of epsilon has not been cut. It may have been painted in. At the end of the line are slight traces of X. Line 20. The fourth letter has been slightly defaced, but there certainly was never a cross bar cut on the stone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.