The Lettering of an Athenian Mason

by Stephen V. Tracy

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Extent: 152 pages

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Hesperia Supplement

Series volume number: 15

Language: English

(Paperback) (Out of print)

(December 1975)

ISBN: 9780876615157

8.46 x 10.94 inches

Price: $74.95

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This book combines two functions, as a technical handbook for training epigraphists to recognize an individual mason’s hands, and a social study of a skilled artisan in Hellenistic Athens (referred to as “B”), a native of Salamis who worked in Athens and at Delphi. The methodology developed by the author to isolate 28 out of hundreds of inscriptions as the work of “B” represents a major step forward in the assigning of fragments to individual masons, previously a very impressionistic exercise.

  • By (author) Stephen V. Tracy