Steven V. Tracy, "The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia Supplement vol 15)"
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies | 1975 | ISBN 0876615159 | PDF | 197 pages | 25.5 MB
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.