| Inventory Number: A 3571 |
| Section Number: ΚΤΛ 555 |
| Title: Frieze Block |
| Category: Architecture Poros |
| Description: Both ends and top cut away. Face of metope shows toothed chisel, face of triglyph finished with drove; back shows long vertical striations of a single point. Undercutting at middle of back for a shift bar. Block originally comprised three triglyphs and two metopes and was cantilevered over a column. From an intermediary use are three small dowel holes in the original underside toward one edge, spaced 0.68m and 0.64m. From Square Peristyle. Poros. |
| Notes: Inventory number not written on block. |
| Context: Reused in south outer wall of Roman Agora between fountain and S.W. corner of the building. This, A 3569 and A 3570 stand upright on the toichobate imbedded in a wall made of miscellaneous ancient blocks supplemented with field stones, broken tiles and coarse mortar. |
| Storage: Roman Agora |
| Negatives: 84-512, 84-513 |
| Dimensions: P.L. 1.98; P.H. 0.52; Th. (triglyph) 0.45, (metope) 0.41; W. (triglyph) 0.40, (metope) 0.602, (dowel holes) 0.03; L. (resting surface) 1.21, (dowel holes) 0.03 |
| Material: Poros |
| Date Of Discovery: 6 July 1966 |
| Section: ΚΤΛ |
| Building: Square Peristyle |
| Bibliography: Agora XXVII, no. Arch41, pp. 59, 60, 71, 122, ill. 20, pl. 27 a, c. |
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