Inventory Number: | A 403 | |
Section Number: | Ε 428 | |
Title: | Altar Side Block | |
Category: | Architecture Marble | |
Description: | Preserved at the right end and broken at the left; much battered; broken also above. Along both preserved faces a series of base and crown moldings, comprising, from bottom to top, guilloche, Lesbian leaf, bead and reel (the lower); the upper: bead and reel, egg and dart. Above the egg and dart, is a small cavetto separated by a vertical fascia from a larger cavetto. On the back, at the end with the corner, a joint surface prepared to receive a return slab. In the lower edge, near the inner edge of this joint surface, a large dowel cutting. Fair work. Altar of Zeus Agoraios (?). Pentelic marble. Many fragments from a similar block were found in a well in the porch of the Metroon. | |
Notes: | Found at J/7-10/7 (Fall 2016). | |
Context: | Found resting upright on earth just to the east of the altar foundations, its bottom on a level with the top of the altar podium. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 1-50, 1-51, 1-52 | |
PD Number: | PD 163, PD 164, PD 165, PD 166, PD 167 | |
Dimensions: | P.L. 2.86; P.H. 1.28; Th. 0.64; W. (joint surface for return slab) ca. 0.67 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | 1931 | |
Section: | Ε | |
Grid: | J 10 | |
Bibliography: | Mauzy (2006), pp. 20, 21, figs. 33, 34, 35, 36. | |
AgoraPicBk 21 (1984), fig. 58. | ||
Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 92, pl. 21 a, b. | ||
Shoe (1936), pls. 23.21, 38.12. | ||
Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 145-148, figs. 29, 30. | ||
References: | Publication: AgoraPicBk 21 (1984) Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933) Publication: Hesperia 21 (1952) Monument: Altar of Zeus Agoraios Plans and Drawings (5) Images (16) Notebook: Ε-5 Notebook Page: Ε-5-26 (pp. 819-820) Card: A 403 Card: A 403 |