Object: A 215
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.
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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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