163: Inscriptions

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/22
Level Item
Dimensions 73.8 x 55.9 cm
Scope and Content Card base with three ink illustrations and three black and white photographs attached, labelled with pasted letters a-f. The number 163 is pasted in the lower left corner. Beside the images labelled a and d (1936/01/05/22/01 and /04) are later annotations in pencil giving bibliographic references. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Dedication of a Sickle (a) by Philonikos, the winner in a musical contest. Early in the 1st century A.D. b. Dedication of Five Sickles: early 4th century B.C. c. Dedication slab with the iron sickle still in place: set up by Leontios, victor in a musical contest. d. Inscribed base of a statue of a victor (bomonikes) in the Contest of Endurance: it was perhaps accompanied by the boy's sickles and dedication-slab: not much before 200 A.D. e,f. Archaic dedications to 'Orthia' (Orthasia), painted on the edge of a plate; not later than 600 B.C."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Inscriptions"