Object: A 257
Inventory Number: A 257
Section Number: ΟΕ 2
Title: Cornice Block: Ionic
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Full height preserved, one end and back broken away; anathyrosis on preserved end. Evidence of clamp-cuttings on top. 0.350m. back from the front horizontal cornice, the top is finished at an angle to receive the raking cornice.
From the Hellenistic Metroon.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 339.
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Context: Found where it had been left by previous excavators near the middle of the south side of the area.
Storage: On Site-Metroon
Negatives: Leica, 5-189
PD Numbers: PD 54
Dimensions: H. (corona) 0.277, (fascia) 0.163
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 27 January 1934
Section: ΟΕ
Building: Metroon
Bibliography: Travlos (1971), fig. 457.
 Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 187, figs. 113-114.
 Shoe (1936), pls. 75.20, 75.21.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 339
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