Object: A 139

Inventory Number:   A 139
Section Number:   Ζ 31
Title:   Step Block
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Top surface shows practically no wear but bottom is badly worn by reuse as a paving block.
Both ends show clamp position scratched on, and further back the clamps as executed.
Same workmanship and series as A 138 (Ζ 30) - A 144 (Ζ 36).
Blue Hymettian marble.
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Context:   Pre-excavation, demolition of house 632b/16
Storage:   On Site-South of Tholos
Negatives:   Leica, XVI-93
Dimensions:   L. 1.015; D. 0.52-0.54; H. 0.295
Material:   Marble (Hymettian)
Dates Excavated:   1933
Date Of Discovery:   1933
Section:   Ζ
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), p. 116, fig. 86.
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1997.04.0085
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
Primary funding is provided by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).