All five fragmentary inscriptions presented in this paper are from the Assos excavation depository. Of these, the first, second and fourth inscriptions were already in the depository when the new excavation season began under the direction of Professor Nurettin Arslan in 2006. It is noted in the record sheet for the find, that the first fragment was discovered in the seventh seating section of the media cavea during excavations conducted in the Assos theater at the end of February 1996. It is

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... kely that this fragment had fallen from the upper terrace, where the agora and bouleuterion of the ancient city were situated. There is no record in the archive about the find-spots of the second and fourth inscriptions. These two artifacts were probably found in the vicinity of Assos and moved to the depository in order to preserve them. The third fragment was discovered in 2007 in a trench located northeast of the burial enclosure thought to belong to the Larichos family, in the western necropolis of the city. The fifth fragmentary inscription was found in Çamköy, a village located northeast of Gülpınar, by Dr. Beate Arslan-Böhlendorf in the course of an archaeological field survey in 2013.