A Lost Pinakion Rediscovered

by Leena Pietilä-Castrén

Hesperia, Volume 85, Issue 1
Page(s): 201-205
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.85.1.0201
Year: 2016
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ABSTRACT:

A bronze pinakion, published in 1910 as a juror's token, seemed to have disappeared without trace. It lay quietly throughout the intervening decades in a drawer in the Coin Cabinet of the National Museum of Finland, unaware of all the commotion caused by the attempts made to recover it. More favorable circumstances finally brought it back to light, where it could be compared with its counterparts from the Athenian Agora. The pinakion is of nondikastic type, having belonged to only one man, Philostratos of Kolone (son of Dionysios), who is known also from other sources.