Object: A 1560
Inventory Number: A 1560
Section Number: Σ 2127
Title: Wall Block Fragment
Category: Architecture Poros
Description: Joint surface preserved at right end; the bed of a roughly cut rebate (?) at top; a more carefully cut notch at upper left corner; other edges broken. Front face finished with toothed chisel.
In face of wall, toward upper left corner, two drilled holes. In one of them the heavily rusted stump of an iron spike.
Stoa Poikile series.
Granular brown poros of Aegina.
Context: From late Roman wall to west of Stoa of Attalos.
Notebook Page: 3895
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 16/2
Negatives: Leica, XXXV-70
Dimensions: P.H. 0.26; P.W. 0.26; P.Th. 0.125; W. (rebate) ca. 0.10, (notch) ca. 0.10; L. (notch) ca. 0.04; D. (drilled holes) ca. 0.05; Diam. (drilled holes) ca. 0.007
Material: Poros
Date Of Discovery: April 1949
Section: Σ
Building: Stoa Poikile
Bibliography: Hesperia 39 (1970), p. 267, pl. 65.
 Hesperia 19 (1950), pl. 103 c.
 ILN (7 January 1950), p. 26, figs. 2, 4.
 Agora XIV, p. 91, pl. 49 c.
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