Object: A 238
Inventory Number: A 238
Section Number: Η 441
 Η 442
 Η 633
Title: Cornice Block
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Reconstructed cornice block.
Included in the block are the fragments originally numbered A 238 a, A 239 a and b, and A 602.
a) (former A 238 a) Broken away in back and on both sides; part of a small hawk's beak preserved. On the bottom three guttae.
b) (former A 239 a, b) Three pieces, of which two join. They are contiguous parts of a mutule, with six guttae preserved. Part of the via is preserved. The non-joining fragment has preserved ample traces of red coloring, and the width of the via. It also exhibits very shallow anathyrosis.
c) (former A 602) Front and bottom preserved; elsewhere broken away. Piece from exterior corner.
From the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble.
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ADDENDA Other fragments originally numbered A 238 b-e, have been renumbered A 2251 (Η 511), 2252 (Η 511 bis), 2253 (Ν 505) and A 2254 (MM 344); also bracketed fragments: A 2241 (Μ 803)-A 2250 (Μ 810).
To this series also belong I 315, I 690 and probably also A 600, A 601.
Notes: Depth is for a) and b).
Notebook Page: 1168, 1171
Storage: On Site-Temple of Ares, on Foundations
Negatives: Leica, LIX-22, LIX-23, LIX-38
PD Numbers: PD 530, PD 777
Dimensions: H. a) 0.38, c) 0.23; Th. a) 0.39; W. a) 0.16, b) (joining fragments) 0.58, b) (distance from middle of first to middle of sixth gutta on joining fragments) 0.51, b) (mutule on joining fragments) 0.555, b) (non-joining fragment) 0.40, b) (via on non-joining fragment) 0.14, c) 0.115
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 30 June 1933, June 1935
Section: Η
Grid: Η:55/Κ
 Η:56/ΙΘ
 Η:53/ΙΗ
Elevation: 53.00m
Longitude: 23.722831
Latitude: 37.975749
Building: Temple of Ares
Bibliography: Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 16, 23, 49, 51, 54, 56, fig. 12.
 Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 9, 11, 19, n. 3, figs. 6 b, 9.
 Shoe (1936), pls. 53.23, 73.16.
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