Agora Object: S 1386
Inventory Number:   S 1386
Section Number:   ΣΑ 324
Title:   Palmette Finial Fragment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Originally a nine-leaf palmette with volute below; carved in low relief on both sides. Parts of seven petals and a volute preserved on one side, parts of six leaves and a volute on the other.
Perhaps from an archaic grave stele.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Found in cleaning Stoa of Attalos.
Negatives:   Leica, LXXVII-42, LXXVII-43
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.405; P.W. 0.30; P.Th. 0.10
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   Latter part of 6th c. B.C.
Date:   January-February 1949
Section:   ΣΑ
Grid:   Q-R 7-13
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Richter (1961), no. 56, p. 41, figs. 142-143.
    Agora XI, no. 106, pp. 48-49, pl. 21.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 67, p. 48
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (5)
Card: S 1386