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Intact with the inscription: ΦΙΛΟΜΝΗΣΤΟΣ ΙΚΑΡΙΕΥΣ.
Ends curve forward due to heavier erasure in middle.
Notches in each end apparently for fitting nails in workbench to hold plate firmly during erasure or inscribing.
Seals: a) lower left, triobol seal (owl facing, surrounded by olive spray and ΑΘΗ;
b) at right, gorgoneion.
c) at lower right, double-bodied owl with tilted alpha in upper left and right corners.
a) and b) stamped before pinakion originally inscribed. c) added sometime later.
Section letters and number of uses:
For last use: kappa in incuse square stamped at left.
For next to last use: eta in incuse square at left of and under Kappa.
Three prior uses: superimposed inscribed beta, kappa, gamma (?) in upper left corner.
For original use: restore stamped section letter in upper left corner, no trace of which now visible.
Hence a minimum of six uses.
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bibliography:
Agora XXVIII, no. P 9, p. 62, pl. 7.
Kroll (1972a), pp. 196-197, figs. 168-171, no. 96.