Inventory Number: | A 4503 | |
Section Number: | ΡΡ' 375 | |
Title: | Cornice Block: Ionic | |
Category: | Architecture Marble | |
Description: | All of back and upper moldings with soffit on front broken away. One end, somewhat crudely tooled, preserved. Mended from two pieces. From bottom up: row of dentils on inclined fillet, and a cyma reversa. Everything higher missing. On rough-picked top, a swallow tail clamp at the finished end, with a second similar clamp (with iron) along break at front, indicating a repair along the line of the present break. Crude anathyrosis on end. From street stoa? Pentelic marble. | |
Context: | Found reused as cover slabs over late drain in N.-S. street, and built into manhole. | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.237, (dentils) 0.061; P.L. 1.335; P.Th. 0.23; W. (dentils) 0.044 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | December 1973 | |
Section: | ΡΡ' | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 339, n. 12. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975) Drawing: PD 2239 (DA 367) Card: A 4503 |