Agora Object: ST 817
Inventory Number:   ST 817
Section Number:   ΒΓ' 354
Title:   Omphalos
Category:   ST Marble
Description:   Chips missing. Shape is elongated hemisphere or half of an ovoid.
Underside slightly concave with projecting tenon. Top work down in an area 0.16m. in diameter and in this is cut a lewis hole measuring 0.06X0.015m.
Chisel marks clearly visible on surface.
Top more roughly chiseled probably from a later use (?).
Hymettian marble.
Notes:   Catalogued 15 July 1974.
Context:   Found during construction of Belvedere north of Theseion Street, railway bridge.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. 0.37; Diam. 0.56
Section:   ΒΓ'
Grid:   H 4
Bibliography:   Hesperia 52 (1983), p. 270, no. 44.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 52 (1983)
Card: ST 817