Agora Object: I 6532
Inventory Number:   I 6532
Section Number:   Σ 2779
Title:   Base Fragment
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed fragment of statue base.
Base for a bronze statue of a standing figure with right foot advanced.
Broken below at left. Much of back missing, but joining fragments give some of back surface. Most of top surface roughly reworked with pointed chisel.
Inscribed surface marred in places.
A rectangular cutting 0.225m. across, 0.26m. front to back and 0.07m. deep in the underside indicates that our block was set on a pillar.
Eleusinian stone.
Cf. AM 25 (1950), pp. 139-147.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Found built into foundations of monument in front of Piers 17-18 of Stoa of Attalos (counting from south).
Notebook Page:   5040-5041
Negatives:   Leica, 86-20-15, LXXII-38
PD Number:   PD 742
Dimensions:   H. 0.255; Lett. H. 0.018; W. 0.572; Th. 0.527
Date:   13 May 1952
Section:   Σ
Grid:   P 8
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 23-24, fig. 9.
    Hesperia 81 (2012), p. 473, n. 15.
    Hesperia Suppl. 25 (1992), p. 37, no. 11.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 50-51.
    Agora III, no. 303, p. 105.
    Agora XVIII, no. C147, pl. 12.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:AM 25 (1950), pp. 139-147.
References:   Publications (6)
Publication Page: Agora 3, s. 115, p. 105
Publication Page: Agora 3, s. 255, p. 245
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 205, p. 186
Drawing: PD 742 (DA 5814)
Images (8)
Card: I 6532