Object: A 279
Inventory Number: A 279
Section Number: Β 183
Title: Capital Fragment: Ionic
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Fragment of echinus of Ionic capital, with painted egg and dart on the convex surface of the molding. Preserved, the lower part of a dart and parts of the eggs adjacent. The resting surface dressed with toothed chisel.
From building A of section Z (?).
Cf. ceiling beam fragments with similar painted pattern, A 400 (Z 992).
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 661 (ΜΜ 338), same series ?, and A 991 (Β 2084).

ADDENDA Perhaps not from building A.
Keyword: UV
Context: From late pithos.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 31/2
Negatives: Leica
PD Numbers: PD 2404, PD 2708
Dimensions: P.W. (face at bottom) 0.068
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 1 March 1934
Section: Β
Grid: Β:9/Α
Longitude: 23.722048
Latitude: 37.974950
Bibliography: Hesperia 65 (1996), pp. 129, 151, no. 10, figs. 2, 15, pl. 38.
 Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 147.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 400
 Agora:Object:A 661
 Agora:Object:A 991