Object: A 169

Inventory Number:   A 169
Section Number:   Ι 207
Title:   Architrave Fragment with Mason's Mark: Doric
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Fragment with regula with guttae.
One side preserved with anathyrosis; top rough-picked to within 0.035m. from edge. Fragmentary evidence of a mason's mark (probably letters) on top surface. Evidence of a T-clamp in the back, 0.15m. from the finished edge.
The guttae are incorporated in the face of the architrave. Exact half width of regula preserved.
Assigned to the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble.
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Context:   Modern house wall.
Storage:   Shelves East of Stoa, Δ-4
Negatives:   Leica
PD Numbers:   PD 774
Dimensions:   D. 0.243, (T-clamp) 0.052; W. (regula) 0.258
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Dates Excavated:   5 April 1933
Date Of Discovery:   5 Apr 1933
Section:   Ι
Building:   Temple of Ares
Bibliography:   Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 3, n. 9, p. 11, fig. 6 c.
    Hesperia 28 (1959), p. 16, n. 36, pp. 17, 20, fig. 7.
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1997.10.0380
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
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