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Publication: Hesperia 9 (1940)
Publication: Hesperia 28 (1959)
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Object: A 249
Inventory Number: A 249
Section Number: Η' 581
Title: Step Block with Mason's Mark
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Bottom step block. Both ends broken.
Front surface worked smooth to 0.120m. from top. The remaining surface below projects 0.01m. from this finished face and is rough-picked.
Top surface badly weathered and apparently reused for a threshold: cutting for pivot socket.
Dividing line visible 0.016.-0.018m. from front surface. Pry hole 0.045m. back from surface in association with a 0.05m. x 0.015m. dowel cutting.
Mason's mark: Ο Δ.
Assigned to the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble.
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Context: Demolition of late foundations in N.W. corner of section.
Storage: On Site-Temple of Ares, on Foundations
Negatives: Leica
Dimensions: H. 0.300; Th. 0.618
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 23 January 1934
Section: Η'
Grid: Η':43-49/ΞΒ-ΞΘ
Longitude: 23.722328
Latitude: 37.975926
Building: Temple of Ares
Bibliography: Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 49, 51.
 Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 3, n. 9.