No. 159.
Mr. Read
to Mr. Evarts.
Athens, April 12, 1877. (Received May 1.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have succeeded in obtaining a satisfactory copy, in plaster, of a very ancient and remarkable Greek treaty, engraved upon a marble column, one portion of which was found sixty and the other two parts twenty days ago, in the course of the important excavations on the southern slope of the Acropolis which are being carried on by the Archaeological Society of Athens, of which I am an honorary member.
This is the first inscription which has been discovered relating to the political life of Alcibiades, the brilliant kinsman of Pericles. It is my intention to present the plaster copy to the Department of State, as a pendant to the venerable treaty between the Athenians and the Chalcidians which I had the honor to send to the Department last year.
I have, &c.,