Private honours
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: End of fourth century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] XVI.11, whence [...], 117b (photo); [...] 097500.

Ἄλκανδρος Ἐπιγένευς

Alkandros fils d'Epigénès.

Alkandros son of Epigenes.

Alkandros figlio di Epigenes.

Pugliese Carratelli, at [...], said that he had seen the stone in the temple of Hermes and also mentioned from Oliverio's papers that it had been found «nell'Agorà». In fact, it does lay at the South-East corner of that temple, on the edge of the Street of Battos, under a good half meter of soil. So it is doubtful that it has much changed place between 1936 and nowadays. We think that 'Agora' must be taken in a broad sense that is the Quarter of the Agora (i.e. Luni's 'Quartiere dell'Agorà'). Between 1936 and 1960 (date of Pugliese Carratelli's visit) the spot had been cleared through demolishing the late tower built across Battos' Street between the Hall of the Orthostats and the Stoa of Hermes and Heracles.

As to its place in Antiquity, it may be assumed that both its former and later use as support of inscriptions would not have been out of place on the Agora proper or in another place of that area; however, as it has been re-cut later on it is not impossible that its findspot is linked to a third use in the latest phase of the temple of Hermes in the second century AD or in the later tower.