Abstract
TWO FRAGMENTS are known of a stele on which several late fifthcentury inventories of dedications in the Parthenon were inscribed. One is opisthographic (face A: IG I2 284/5; face B: IG I2 289); the other is inscribed on one side (IG I2 290) while its other face is original and uninscribed. Earlier commentators assumed that the obverse of the stele, to which they assigned IG 12 284/5, contained the four inventories of the Panathenaic penteteris 418/7-415/4 and was inscribed in two or three columns of forty-three letters each.' Although the length of line is correct, there is no parallel for such a columnar arrangement, and it is rendered impossible by the thickness of the stone, which is 0.079 m. at its maximum.2 A stele wide enough to carry lines 86 or 129 letters long could not have been made so thin without weakening it unduly. For the purposes of comparison we may consider the dimensions of a stele which was able to accommodate only three Parthenon inventories from the years 414/3-412/1:3
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