Fragment of Pentelic marble, preserving part of a double moulding at the top, brought in from the vicinity of Evangelistria Street (Judeich, Topographie von Athen, Plan I, squares G3–4) on 27 May 1938.

• Height, 0.326 m; width, 0.37 m; thickness, 0.111 m.

• Height of letters, 0.005 m, in a square chequer pattern of 0.0103 m.

• Inv. No. 15477.

See Plate 4.

Content, lettering and spacing all make it certain that we have here the top of IGii2 334 (E. M. 7153). It will be seen that it contains a law relating to the financing of the Lesser Panathenaia. The old fragment contains a decree of the demos about the organisation of the festival, apparently in amendment of a probouleuma of the boule, which also must have stood on the stone, since lines 16–17 of the old fragment presuppose information which cannot have stood in our law. This combination of a law and a decree on the same stele is unparalleled, but is justified by the permanent nature of the provisions of the decree.

Unfortunately, although the length of the lines is certain, the horizontal position of the new fragment cannot be precisely fixed, since it has no edge to left or right. Broken surface extends to the right sufficiently to make it clear that there were at least five letters to the right of the last preserved letter, and I assume, for reasons which will appear, that there cannot have been many more.

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[∪ς Mαραθώνιoς ɛiπ]ɛν. ΤUXηι aλαθñι Τoũ δήμoU [Τoũ'Aθη]

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