Specifications for the construction of the Doric Stoa of the Asklepieion

Aleshire, Asklepios, p. 14-32 Date: 300/299 BC
 
Face A
col. 1
Fragment a
. . . common[1] . . . long . . . the ones above ground . . . join with the broadest (5) . . . making the crushed-stone foundation (lithologēma) . . . of the place . . . until the cutting (katatomēs) . . . of the room (oikēmatos) . . . according to the archipendulum (diabētēn),[2] these things (10) . . . when . . . the cutting . . . of the room, days . . . clean, size . . . and of the – water . . .
Fragment b
(15) . . . and also . . . . . . the equal, five . . . . . . and also the . . . . . . having been worked out . . . . . . blocks (plinthides) . . . (20) . . . (stones) with unworked faces, except . . . . . . to be . . . . . . and to stand . . . . . . length . . . . . . (25) . . .
Fragment c
. . . . . . shrine (sēkōi) . . . [3] . . . of the builder . . . . . . thus border . . . (30) . . . and the shrine . . . . . . plan or recorder (anagraphea), which may . . . . . . and to – of the walls . . . . . . of the administrat- . . . . . . he will place . . . (35) . . .
Fragment d
(no text preserved)
Fragment e
(no text preserved)
col. 2
Fragment a
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Fragment b
(no text preserved)
Fragment inline
(no text preserved)
Fragment d
. . . being in accordance with . . . . . . and will set up Doric [columns] [of Hymettan marble . . . ] in accordance with the under- . . . with the capital nine- (40) [and-a-half feet . . . ] each, thickness . . . half-feet, fluted (errabdōmen-) . . . and each wall . . . Hymettan, equal the . . . with the capital, and the (45) . . . of the – Pentelic . . . on all sides, three-and-a-half [feet . . . ] the edge on . . . palm-length (palaston), and will place . . . the seats and the antae (parastadas) (50) . . .
Fragment e
. . . . . . Doric . . . . . . on the other side, he will place . . . . . . around a dowel and . . . (55) . . . the wall’s stone blocks with one . . . . . . epistyle blocks, he will place on . . . . . . filling the whole space . . . . . . with two stone blocks over the intercolumniation (kata to metastulion) . . . . . . having completed it accordingly . . . (60) . . . the same shape and size . . . . . . to the -, and he will put together the joints (harmous) . . . . . . of the ridge-beam (koruphaios), a palm’s width join . . . . . . around two iron dowels . . . . . . each joint . . . (65) . . . [with] one - , a palm’s length . . . . . . fingers’ [width], thickness . . . . . . of – and beams (dokous) . . . . . . he will bind . . .
Face B
col. 1
Fragment a
. . . (70) . . . . . . . . . . . . stone . . . shrine (75) . . . thickness of three . . . seven triple-half-feet (i.e. 10.5 feet) . . . . . . . . . (80) . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fragment b
(no text preserved)
Fragment c
(no text preserved)
col. 2
Fragment a
. . . (70) will – the . . . above as much as . . . - and . . . of the capital . . . having completed . . . (75) shrine from the inside . . . each . . . so that . . . he will place it on . . . thickness . . . (80) five . . . fingers . . . . . . . . .
Fragment b
. . . (85) . . . two walls . . . . . . beams (thranous) . . . . . . Hymettan Doric . . . . . . and of the – from the gable (aetōmatos) . . . . . . on the wall he will place a cornice (geison) . . . (90) . . . filling . . . . . . all the . . . . . . top of the wall . . . [ . . . length of number ] feet, width . . . . . . small stones accordingly . . . (95) . . . the religious officials (hieropoioi) into the sanctuary (hieron) . . . . . . six men and the . . . . . . . . . . . . this . . . (100) . . .
Fragment c
. . . . . . bronze . . . . . . is written . . . . . . whitened board (leukōma) in the middle . . . (105) . . . so that the [director of works (architektōn)] may declare . . . . . . recorders (anagrapheas) and . . . . . . except stone blocks . . . . . . whatever else [the director of works] orders . . . . . . when finished, he will return it . . . (110) . . . specification (suggraphēn) for the . . . . . . in the archonship of [Hege]machos (300/299) . . . uninscribed space