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block
Object Type
block
Museum number
1886,1005.21
Description
Fragment of marble block, bearing incised Greek text. Top, bottom and front preserved; also a small section of left side. The right side is probably just preserved at the front. There is anathyrosis on the top and left, and perhaps on the right. A wear mark suggests this was topped by a further block, part of a stepped base. Ionian marble.
Cultures/periods
Ptolemaic
Classical Greek
Production date
4thC BC
Production place
Claimed to be from:
Ionia (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Naukratis
Materials
marble
Dimensions
Height:
15.50 centimetres
(preserved)
Length:
49.50 centimetres
Thickness:
18.50 centimetres
(preserved)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Petrie diary, 1884-1885 (EES Archive XVII 47), p. 168 and 172. Names, Kleainetos, son of Aristothemis and Maiandrios, son of Stratonides.
Bibliographic references
Inscription / The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum
(1083)
Bernand 1970 / Le Delta égyptien d'après les textes grecs, i: les confins libyques
(no. 20, pl. 39, 1-2)
Petrie 1886 / Naukratis. Part I., 1884-85
(p. 35, pl. XXX, no. 4)
Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
(BA.08)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1886
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1886,1005.21