Object: A 138

FieldValue
Inventory NumberA 138
Section NumberΖ 30
TitleStep Block
CategoryArchitecture Marble
DescriptionCorner block. The face is picked, and shows no drafting at foot of step. The working of the anathyrosis band is not very smooth, but rather picked. At edge of joint is a smooth worked surface, not sunk below but quite distinctly visible.
A clamp was once intended at the top and never cut, but apparently the step above the set further back than called for by the original plan.
Blue Hymettian marble.
A 138 (Ζ 30) - A 144 (Ζ 36) are from the same series.
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ContextPre-excavation.
StorageOn Site-South of Tholos
NegativesLeica, XVI-93
DimensionsL. 1.074; D. 0.548; H. 0.295; W. (smooth worked surface at edge of joint) ca. 0.015
MaterialMarble (Hymettian)
Date Of Discovery1933
SectionΖ
BibliographyHesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), p. 116, fig. 86.
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