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.
- ISBN10 0876615159
- ISBN13 9780876615157
- Publish Date 1 December 1975
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Edition Volume XV ed.
- Format Paperback
- Language English