Object: A 49

FieldValue
Inventory NumberA 49
Section NumberΑ
TitleCornice Block: Doric
CategoryArchitecture Marble
DescriptionCornice block from inside corner. Preserved in all dimensions; two sides with anathyrosis at right angles to each other; on the two sides without anathyrosis the stone is cut away, perhaps for lightening, and the surface is rough-picked. The top is rough-picked.
T-clamps: one over each anathyrosis side: L. 0.14m., D. 0.05m., 0.093m.; L. 0.108m. D. 0.035m., head, 0.095.
Lifting holes for tongs, under cut, on the top: 0.305m. apart, L. 0.235m., W. 0.12m. (average), D. 0.113.-0.11m. (at deep end).
Overhang: face, H. (at projecting end) 0.19m ; Taenia under drip, 0.035m.; drip broken off.
Soffit: Mutule block (traces of blue color) falls away on both sides from a diagonal ridge, 0.306m. square, H. 0.03m.
Six guttae are preserved in whole or part; the arrangement indicates that there were nine, spaced 0.095m., H. 0.014m., Diam. 0.033m.
The viae, L. 0.314m. and 0.311m., W. 0.091m. and 0.098m., are elaborately decorated with double palmettes and scrolls, with abundant traces of red color.
For details of ornament see A 822.
Pentelic marble.
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NotesCf. negative 7-39.
Notebook Page386
StorageOn Site-Stoa of Zeus
NegativesLeica, 4-363, 5-295
PD NumbersPD 18, PD 19
DimensionsL. 1.102; W. 1.00; H. 0.37
MaterialMarble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery14 July 1931
SectionΑ
GridΑ:11-12/ΣΤ-Ζ
Longitude23.722145
Latitude37.975714
BuildingStoa of Zeus
BibliographyTravlos (1971), fig. 667.
 Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 30, 32, 42, figs. 19, 20, 21, 26.
 Shoe (1936), pls. 30.5, 73.19.
 Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 120, 121, figs. 8, 9.
 Agora XIV, p. 98, pl. 51 a.
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