Object: A 208

Inventory Number:   A 208
Section Number:   Ι 346
Title:   Architrave Block: Ionic
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Corner block. Dimensions fully preserved. Top surface worked with tooth chisel; lewis hole. At the back, the upper left corner has a cutting, apparently to receive a wooden beam. Its width continues across the top surface. Beneath the beam cutting the marble projects and fragmentary interior fasciae are visible, badly broken.
Anathyrosis on the back, to receive the return. On a corner of the front surface, the block is unfinished.
Pentelic marble.
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Context:   Built into late wall, close to modern surface.
Storage:   On Site-East Part of Late Roman Fortification Wall
Negatives:   Leica
PD Numbers:   PD 53
Dimensions:   H. 0.683; W. 0.730; Th. 0.455; D. (beam cutting) 0.023
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Dates Excavated:   17 May 1933
Date Of Discovery:   18 May 1933
Section:   Ι
Bibliography:   Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 186, fig. 112.
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2002.01.0053
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
Primary funding is provided by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).