Agora Object: S 3455
Inventory Number:   S 3455
Section Number:   ΚΤΛ 822
Conservation Number:   692
Title:   Akanthos Stele
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Stele complete as far as can be seen.
Back rough-picked. Front surface uneven, possibly reworked with original surface chipped off. Flaked and spalled. Traces of mortar.
A taenia over an ovolo separates the anthemion from the shaft. The anthemion is a split palmette composed of two five-leaved half-palmettes, which spring, along with their volutes, from thick cauliculae. Originally a second pair of volutes rested on the horizontal molding at the corners, but these are abraded away. The stems from which they grew are preserved.
Fine grained white marble.
Context:   Among the marbles in the area between the Southwest Temple and the Civic Offices.
Handling:   Should be stored on the flat broken surface.
Negatives:   96-13-29(30,31)
Dimensions:   P.H. (stone imbedded in earth) ca. 1.14; W. 0.36; Th. 0.095
Material:   Marble
Date:   13 December 1994
Section:   ΚΤΛ
Grid:   I 11
Bibliography:   Agora XXXV, no. 154, pl. 46.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXV
Image: 2011.05.0430
Image: 2012.82.0255 (96-13-29)
Card: S 3455