Corinth Object: I 388
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 388
Title:   MARBLE INSCRIPTION
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   388
Description:   Marble inscription with letters decreasing in height by line: 1) 0.065, first letter 0.076; 2) 0.055-0.057; 3) 0.051; line 4 also smaller. Similar lettering as I-523.
Decoration:   Odd thickening of some finials and of all horizontal strokes of letters.
Writing:   inscribed. Four lines in Greek.
1st: LOUKI[on-]
2nd: LOUKIOY [uion-----anti]
3rd: STRATHGO[n-]
4th: KAI STRAT[hgon-]
Material:   Marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving original top and left sides, broken at left and bottom. Thickness uneven, greatest at right: at top 0.03-0.034; at bottom 0.023-0.027.
Area:   Peirene
Context:   Peirene
Findspot Description:   Found in 1905 in early Spring while deep digging in North apse of Peirene Foutain.
Bibliography:   Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, cat. 95; AJA 1919, p. 388, no. 97
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Peirene
Image: bw 0699
Image: digital 2011 7240
Basket: Peirene