The fragment which I publish here by the kind permission of Dr J. Papademetriou lies in the courtyard of the Piraeus Museum. Of its origins nothing can be said. It does not appear in the Museum inventory, and all that can be affirmed for certain is that it was already in the Museum in January 1937, when Mr J. G. Griffith made a squeeze which is now in the Ashmolean Museum. This squeeze besides its chronological value is also helpful, in that it shows rather more than can now be read on the stone.

Fragment of Pentelic marble with left–hand edge and original roughpicked back preserved. Height: 0.352 m; width: 0.349 m; thickness: 0.152 m. Uninscribed left margin of 0.026 m. Uninscribed space below last line of at least 0.110 m. Cut with two chisels of 10 mm and 6 mm, the smaller being employed for the cross–bars of epsilon, alpha, and the aspirate, the horizontal and right vertical of pi, and all three strokes of upsilon and sigma. Horizontal chequer: 0.0137 m; vertical chequer: 0.0194 m. See Plate 1 (photograph of squeeze).

… νO ‥ 5 ‥ ΣiOE

‥ ι ΤEι aγoρaι ΤEι ɛβ_[——- πɛρ]

iΤΤòν πɛi ΤEς Eπάρχɛ[ς—— Eπισκ]

5 [… ιɛ]ρòν aλλo E Eς ΤO[—–]

[. o γραμ]μαΤɛύς o ΤES [βoλEς —- Oι]

[δE πoλɛΤα]i aπoμισθoσ[άνΤoν

vacat

Line 1 is read entirely from the stone, the squeeze not being adequate at this point.