Object: A 140

Inventory Number:   A 140
Section Number:   Ζ 32
Title:   Stylobate Block
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Corner. The shorter face of the block is less well finished than the longer, hence probably faced side of building. Rectangular dowels with pour channels for column base whose diameter was about 0.56m. shown by staining of marble.
Blue Hymettian marble.
A 138 (Ζ 30) - A 144 (Ζ 36) are from the same series.
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Context:   Pre-excavation, demolition of house 632/16 b.
Storage:   On Site-South of Tholos
Negatives:   Leica, XVI-93
Dimensions:   L. 0.99; D. ca. 0.74; H. 0.270
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.
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