Object: A 2969
Inventory Number: A 2969
Section Number: Ι 1641
Title: Column Shaft
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Comprised of four drums. Square empolion cuttings for all joints including top and bottom. Drums neatly lettered from top down Α - Ε. Twenty flutings. Dipinto in flute of second drum. Deep slots in second drum from bottom, two at 180'; in third drum two at 180'; in fourth drum four at 90'.
Marble.
Capital A 2972 belongs.
Context: From tower of Late Roman Fortification at S.W. corner of Library of Pantainos; from lowest course of south wall of tower together with the two other shafts A 2970 and A 2971, the two capitals A 2972 and A 2973, and fragments of base A 2891 and A 2892.
Notebook Page: 3206
Storage: Stoa Shop I
Negatives: Leica, 82-154, 82-155, 82-157, 82-218, 82-355, 82-356, 82-438
PD Numbers: PD 1123, PD 1124, PD 1610
Dimensions: H. (lower drum) 1.096, (second drum) 1.092, (third drum) 1.619, (upper drum) 1.374; Diam. (lower drum) 0.825, (upper) 0.681
Material: Marble
Date Of Discovery: July 1959
Section: Ι
Bibliography: Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 351-356, pls. 75-77.
 Agora XIV, p. 166.
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