Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis : A Catalogue of the Inscriptions of the Sixxth and Fifth Centuries B. C. [ Acropolis ]
Cambridge, MA: Archaeological Institute of America, 1949. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Quarto (oversized). Some wearand light fraying to edges and corners of boards. Wear to spine. Binding looser toward the front but holding. xv, 545 p. w/ illustrations, reproductions of inscriptions, and index to deities, men and women, and general subjects.
A detailed study of over 390 dedicatory inscriptions, often fragmentary. The book updates earlier studies and presents an excelent discussion of both the fragements and the archeological work associated with them.
Raubitschek was an outstanding Austrian classical archaeology scholar who came to the United States after Austria was annexed to Germany by the Nazi regime. He worked at Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Jeffrey was an epigrapher educated in Cambridge England, well known and respected for her efforts in Greek inscriptions.
A working copy of this milestone in archaeological epigraphy, once owners by Prof. Henry R. Immerwahr, who wrote his name on the flyleaf. Good. Item #12687
Price: $60.00