Fragments 7 & 8

These two pieces are interesting for they are divided across two blocks horizontally, which is not common in the Inscription. The first part is the upper block and was numbered 7 by Cousin  and 2 by Usener. Its height is 0.335 m, width is 0.68 m and thickness is 0.35m. Fragment 8 (according to Cousin) and 3 by Usener. Its height is 0.48m, width 0.75m and thickness is 0.36 m (Kalinka notes "unten 13cm hoch Spuren eines abgearbeiteten Profils").

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The source here is Ernst Kalinka and Rudolf Heberdey, L'inscription philosophique d'Oenoanda in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 21, 1897. pp. 360.