Google Earth| Inventory Number: A 215 |
| Section Number: Η' 363 |
| Title: Step Block with Mason's Mark |
| Category: Architecture Marble |
| Description: Bottom step block (euthynteria). All surfaces preserved, with anathyrosis on both ends. Front surface: worked with toothed chisel for 0.14m. from top, save for a drafted edge. The remaining surface below projects 0.012m. from this finished face, and is rough-picked. Top surface: worked with toothed chisel. Clamps on both ends, reused. A dowel hole in the middle of the block, a pry hole to go with it along the back edge and a second pry hole in the back right hand corner. The step-worn end bears a setting line 0.155m. from front. Mason's marks in the middle of the block: Δ Δ Ψ. Back surface unfinished. Assigned to the Temple of Ares. Pentelic marble. Cf. A 146, (Η' 4) from same series. <graphic> |
| Context: From modern foundation. |
| Storage: On Site-Temple of Ares, on Foundations |
| Negatives: Leica, LIX 46 |
| PD Numbers: PD 529, PD 771 |
| Dimensions: L. 1.35; H. 0.30; Th. 0.61 |
| Material: Marble (Pentelic) |
| Date Of Discovery: 29 May 1933 |
| Section: Η' |
| Grid: Η':20/Ν |
| Longitude: 23.722322 |
| Latitude: 37.975637 |
| Building: Temple of Ares |
| Bibliography: Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 9, 10, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, nn. 121, 132, fig. 3, pl. 3 a. |
| Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 3, n. 9. |
| Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 146 |
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