Inscribed base for a dedication

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 6502

Category

Pedestal

Period

Archaic Period

Date

490-480 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.9 m
Length: 0.095 m

Material

Marble from Penteli

Location

Archaic Acropolis Gallery

Description
Bibliography

Located in 1931 at the Acropolis fortification wall, northwest of the entrance of the Mycenaean Fountain. It was reassembled from many pieces and restored.

It has the form of a slender pillar whose upper part ends with a plain capital carved on the same block of marble. The capital’s upper surface has a socket to receive a dedication. On its front side a vertical carved inscription notifies us that ΗΕΙΔΟ ΜΑΝΕΘΕΚΕΝ, meaning “Pheido dedicated me”. This is one of the few cases that we know with every certainty that the dedication was made by a woman.

Broneer, O., «Excavations on the North Slope of the Acropolis in Athens, 1931-1932», Hesperia 2, 1933, σελ. 372, εικ. 46, αρ.κατ. 1
Raubitschek, A.E., Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis. A Catalogue of the Inscriptions of the Sixth and Fifth Century BC, Cambridge Mass, 1949, σελ. 287-288, αρ.κατ. 258
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 31, εικ. 22
Inscriptiones Graecae Ι3, αρ.κατ. 813
Kissas, K., Die attischen Statuen- und Stelenbasen archaischer Zeit, Bonn, 2000, σελ. 166-167, αρ.κατ. Β 105
Ματθαίου, Α., Μαλούχου, Γ., Συνοπτικός κατάλογος των επιγραφών της Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα, 2012, σελ. 8