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
Dates Excavated:   August-September 1932
Date Of Discovery:   Aug 1932
Section:   Α
Elevations:   15.10m.
Deposit:   G 6:3
Bibliography:   Hesperia 7 (1938), no. 55, p. 407, figs. 43, 44.
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