Note on a Samothracian Inscription

URAGMENTARY building inscription of Thasian marble, complete at top and 11 bottom (both upper and lower moldings being preserved) but broken at each side. Accession number 48.286. Height, 0.372 m.; preserved width, about 0.61 m.; thickness, 0.055 m. to 0.07 m., increasing from top to bottom. Height of letters, 0.035 m. to 0.04 m. Edited from a squeeze and a field drawing.' The circumstances of the discovery of the inscription are recorded in the expedition Diary of July 18, 1948: The members of the expedition went to the village of Halonia, half an hour SSW of Chora where Constantinos Kales had informed us that he had found on his property the ruins of a building including marble blocks and an inscription. . . . The few fragments of the building in a vineyard revealed that it was a concrete structure. A marble pillar with two half-columns of the type used in Byzantine windows had been found and was measured and photographed. The inscription, of Byzantine character, was brought to the Museum

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