Object: A 225
Inventory Number: A 225
Section Number: Η' 457
Title: Column Drum Fragment
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: From base drum of column. The midpoint of its underside is marked by the intersection of two scratched lines, each ca. 0.20m. long. Surface of underside finished throughout with a toothed chisel, save for a smooth dressed band providing a relieving surface.
Flutes preserved on opposite sides.
From Stoa of Zeus.
Pentelic marble.
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Notes: Its bottom 0.30m. above the floor of the trench
Context: In pillaged foundation trench for east colonnade of "Royal Stoa", its bottom 0.30m. above the floor of the trench.
Storage: On Site-Stoa of Zeus
Negatives: Leica, 6-40
PD Numbers: PD 12
Dimensions: Diam. (lower end) 0.786; P.H. 0.51; W. (flutings at bottom) 0.121, (dressed band) 0.045
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 16 June 1933
Section: Η'
Grid: Η':31/ΞΖ
Elevation: Ca. -0.30m.
Longitude: 23.722224
Latitude: 37.975802
Building: Stoa of Zeus
Bibliography: Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 24, fig. 12.
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1997.03.0086