A fragment of a Peloponnesian War-era decree of the Athenians concerning Aphytis, a city in the Chalcidice, a peninsula in northeastern Greece, toward the edge of Athens' imperial reach The decree concerned the importation of corn, and was modeled after a similar decree concerning Methone, another northern Greek city towards the outskirts of the Athenian empire. 

    Later, the fragment was used as a Byzantine-era door threshold; the large round hole bored into the stone is for a doorpost.

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    Bibliography:

    Hesperia 63 (1994), p. 172.

    Hesperia 13 (1944), p. 211, no. 2.

    Agora XVI, no. 15, p. 18.

    IG I3, no. 62.

    Date
    426/5 BC
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    Location
    Athens, Greece
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