Object: A 208

FieldValue
Inventory NumberA 208
Section NumberΙ 346
TitleArchitrave Block: Ionic
CategoryArchitecture Marble
DescriptionCorner 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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ContextBuilt into late wall, close to modern surface.
StorageOn Site-East Part of Late Roman Fortification Wall
NegativesLeica
PD NumbersPD 53
DimensionsH. 0.683; W. 0.730; Th. 0.455; D. (beam cutting) 0.023
MaterialMarble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery17 May 1933
SectionΙ
BibliographyHesperia 6 (1937), p. 186, fig. 112.
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