Object: A 256
Inventory Number: A 256
Section Number: ΟΕ 1
Title: Cornice Block: Ionic
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Depth and width preserved.
One end, and part of the corona, broken.
Cuttings in back for wooden beams, spaced ca. 0.385m. clear dimension.
Anathyrosis on one end, which also bears a dowel cutting on the bottom and two H-clamp cuttings on the top.
Drafted edge, 0.014m., on crowning mold of corona; remainder of upper surface rough-picked. Excellent workmanship.
Cf. A 391.
Pentelic (?) marble.
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Context: Found in digging in N.E. corner of room D. of Great Building.
Storage: On Site-Metroon
Negatives: Leica
PD Numbers: PD 41
Dimensions: H. 0.312; W. (dentils) 0.070, (between each dentil) 0.035
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 27 January 1934
Section: ΟΕ
Building: Temple of Apollo Patroos
Bibliography: Hesperia 39 (1970), p. 194 (noted).
 Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 149, figs. 84, 85.
 Shoe (1936), pls. 20.5, 31.16
 Agora XIV, pp. 32, 138, nn. 41, 110.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 391
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