Agora Object: A 4504
Inventory Number:   A 4504
Section Number:   ΡΡ' 376
Title:   Cornice Block
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Doric cornice block, no full dimensions preserved, re-cut as Ionic cornice. Slightly more than a third of one mutule preserved, with five guttae. Double fascia on face; soffit above broken away. No certain full dimensions or finished edges preserved. Full height only of Ionic block preserved. Parts of nine dentils preserved on face, upper part broken away. Top rough-picked with swallowtail Π-clamp at one end. A similar clamp cutting runs toward the front of the block, suggesting a repair in antiquity, similar to that for A 4503 (ΡΡ' 375).
From street stoa?
Pentelic marble.
Context:   From manhole of drain in N.-S. street.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.L. (Doric) 0.233, (Ionic) 0.53; P.H. (Doric) 0.26; H. (Ionic) 0.233; P.Th. (Doric) 0.53, (Ionic) 0.26
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   August 1973
Section:   ΡΡ'
Bibliography:   Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 339, n. 12.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975)
Drawing: PD 2240 (DA 368)
Card: A 4504
Card: A 4504