Object: A 45

Inventory Number:   A 45
Section Number:   Α
Title:   Cornice Block: Doric
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Both ends of the block preserved, with anathyrosis band, the lower resting surface remains to a thickness of 0.14m.; the profile under the corona is preserved, and the start of the corona, with two mutules and two viae. The top surface is partially preserved, and shows the cutting for the head of a T-clamp. The back of the block is broken away.
Moldings:
Profile under overhang: cyma reversa, 0.035m.; taenia, 0.034-0.036m.
Viae: two preserved, via at end, W. 0.102m., H. 0.03m.; via in middle, W. 0.098m., H. 0.03m., P.L. 0.09m. (ca. P.D. overhang).
Mutules, L. 0.402.
Pentelic marble.
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Notebook Page:   289
Storage:   On Site-Stoa of Zeus
Negatives:   Leica
PD Numbers:   PD 18
Dimensions:   L.1.005; H. 0.328; P.Th. 0.305; W. (anathyrosis band) 0.045; D. (cutting for T-clamp head) 0.06
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Dates Excavated:   2 July 1931
Date Of Discovery:   2 Jul 1931
Section:   Α
Grid:   Α:10/Θ
Longitude:   23.722115
Latitude:   37.9757
ZAverage:   0
Building:   Stoa of Zeus
Bibliography:   Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 30, fig. 19.
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
Primary funding is provided by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).