This is one of the three parts of a stele on which the Parian Chronicle was inscribed. 3d century BCE.
PARIAN CHRONICLE
This inscription records in 134 lines a chronological record from the time of the mythical king of Athens Kekrops (1582 B.C.) until the time of the Athenian eponymous ruler Diognetos (264-263 B.C.). This chronological record documents the birth and death of the most important personalities of greek antiquity as well as important political and historical events.
There is a possibility that the stele had been standing in Archilocheion so that it was accessible and visible by all.
It is dated in the 3rd cent.B.C. and was carved by a Parian sculptor.
In 1627 two of the three parts were discovered in the castle of Paoikia and were transported to Smyrna by a man called Sampson. These parts were later bought by lord Arundel and were donated to the Oxford Ashmolean Museum, in which they are still kept. In 1897 in the place called Tholos in Paroikia, in Varouchas' land, the third part of the inscription was found and was entrusted by Andreas Varouchas to the Museum, where it is now exhibited. - museum label
Exhibited in Paros Archaeological Museum, Paros Island, Greece.