Object: A 144

Inventory Number:   A 144
Section Number:   Ζ 36
Title:   Step Block
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Dowel in right end for course above still retains head. Iron hard to trace. The clamp at this end also retains some lead, both being worn down with surface of block by reuse.
Blue Hymettian marble.
A 138 (Ζ 30) - A 144 (Ζ 36) are from the same series.
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Notes:   See card A 142 for photo together with A 140 and A 142.
Context:   Pre-excavation, demolition of house 632b/16.
Storage:   On Site-South of Tholos
Dimensions:   L. 1.358; D. ca. 0.540; H. 0.295
Material:   Marble (Hymettian)
Dates Excavated:   1933
Date Of Discovery:   1933
Section:   Ζ
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), p. 117, 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).