| Inventory Number: A 403 |
| Section Number: Ε 428 |
| Title: Altar Side Block |
| Category: Architecture Marble |
| Description: Preserved at the right end and broken at the left; much battered; broken also above. Along both preserved faces a series of base and crown moldings, comprising, from bottom to top, guilloche, Lesbian leaf, bead and reel (the lower); the upper: bead and reel, egg and dart. Above the egg and dart, is a small cavetto separated by a vertical fascia from a larger cavetto. On the back, at the end with the corner, a joint surface prepared to receive a return slab. In the lower edge, near the inner edge of this joint surface, a large dowel cutting. Fair work. Altar of Zeus Agoraios (?). Pentelic marble. Many fragments from a similar block were found in a well in the porch of the Metroon. |
| Context: Found resting upright on earth just to the east of the altar foundations, its bottom on a level with the top of the altar podium. |
| Storage: On Site-Altar of Zeus Agoraios |
| Negatives: Leica, 1-50, 1-51, 1-52 |
| PD Numbers: PD 163, PD 164, PD 165, PD 166, PD 167 |
| Dimensions: P.L. 2.86; P.H. 1.28; Th. 0.64; W. (joint surface for return slab) ca. 0.67 |
| Material: Marble (Pentelic) |
| Date Of Discovery: 1931 |
| Section: Ε |
| Grid: J 10 |
| Building: Altar of Zeus Agoraios |
| Bibliography: Mauzy (2006), pp. 20, 21, figs. 33, 34, 35, 36. |
| AgoraPicBk 21 (1984), fig. 58. |
| Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 92, pl. 21 a, b. |
| Shoe (1936), pls. 23.21, 38.12. |
| Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 145-148, figs. 29, 30. |
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