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Science 10 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4333, pp. 1070 - 1072
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4333.1070
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Assembly of Greek Marble Inscriptions by Isotopic Methods

NORMAN HERZ 1 and DAVID B. WENNER 1

1 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602

Classical Greek inscriptions cut in marble, whose association as original stelai by archeological methods was debatable, were selected for study. Using traditional geological techniques and determinations of the per mil increments in carbon-13 and oxygen-18, it was determined that fragments could be positively assigned to three stelai, but that fragments from three other stelai had been incorrectly associated.

Submitted on September 26, 1977
Revised on December 5, 1977

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