Object: A 137
Inventory Number: A 137
Section Number: Α 301 BIS
Title: Capital: Doric
Category: Architecture Poros
Description: Full height preserved.
Rim of echinus cut almost vertical and has a deep V-groove under the abacus instead of curving in. The trachelion is unfluted and flares upward slightly. Top of abacus worked smooth for 0.08m. all around. Center raised 0.004m.; much hacked.
A shallow band starts at the trachelion and follows over the curve of the echinus to the top of the abacus.
Square dowel cutting in bottom of cap.
Poros.
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Context: Rectangular rock cut shaft. Context ca. 540 B.C.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 30/6
Negatives: Leica, 7-402, VI-78
PD Numbers: PD 458
Dimensions: H. 0.22; W. (shallow band) ca. 0.035, (dowel cutting) ca. 0.07; L. (dowel cutting) ca. 0.07
Material: Poros
Date Of Discovery: August-September 1932
Section: Α
Elevation: -15.10m.
Deposit: G 6:3
Bibliography: Hesperia 7 (1938), no. 55, p. 407, figs. 43, 44.
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