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. <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) | |
| Dates Excavated: | 29 May 1933 | |
| Date Of Discovery: | 29 May 1933 | |
| Section: | Η' | |
| Grid: | Η':20/Ν | |
| Longitude: | 23.722322 | |
| Latitude: | 37.975636 | |
| ZAverage: | 0 | |
| Building: | Temple of Ares | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 3, n. 9. | |
| Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 9, 10, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, nn. 121, 132, fig. 3, pl. 3 a. | ||
| Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:A 146 |
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