Inscriptions from the Athenian AgoraMany types of written records are found in the Agora, and this booklet presents a sample of the more than 10,000 inventoried inscriptions written on stone. The texts illustrated include diplomatic agreements, commemorative plaques for athletic victories, records of court judgements, boundary stones identifying different buildings, and fragmentary inscriptions featuring names (over 30,000 individual Athenians are now recorded). |
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| Title | Inscriptions from the Athenian Agora Volume 10 of Agora Picture Book Issue 10 of Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture book, ISSN 0569-7425 Volume 10 of Picture book], [Excavations of the Athenian agora |
| Authors | Benjamin Dean Meritt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| Editor | Benjamin Dean Meritt |
| Photographs by | Alison Frantz |
| Illustrated by | Alison Frantz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | ASCSA, 1966 |
| ISBN | 0876616104, 9780876616109 |
| Length | 32 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / Greece Social Science / Archaeology |
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