Object: A 625
Inventory Number: A 625
Section Number: Ρ 76
Title: Euthynteria Block with Mason's Mark
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Top surface: Setting line 0.155m. from front edge; the surface in front of this polished; behind, finished with chisel. Cuttings for H-clamps at each end; a rectangular dowel hole in about center of stone; and two shallow pry holes behind this. Mason's mark: Δ Δ Ε.
Front surface: Upper part finished with a chisel, the lower part, which projects ca. 0.035m. is left rough.
Ends: The two ends are joint surfaces with rough-picked centers and smooth finished anathyrosis bands. At both ends at the bottom the surface is worn and no traces of the anathyrosis band exist.
Bottom and back: Both of these are rough somewhat broken surfaces with no traces of finish or cuttings preserved.
From the Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble.
Context: Surface, and modern wall. Same series as A 146 (Η' 4), A 215 (Η' 363), etc.
Storage: On Site-Temple of Ares, on Foundations
Negatives: Leica
Dimensions: H. 0.302, (masons mark) 0.05-0.57; L. 1.34, (dowel hole) 0.045; Th. 0.63; W. (upper part on front surface) 0.145, (dowel hole) 0.02, (anathyrosis bands) ca. 0.05; D. (dowel hole) 0.038
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 25 February 1936
Section: Ρ
Grid: Ρ:17/ΚΕ
Longitude: 23.723296
Latitude: 37.975459
Building: Temple of Ares
Bibliography: Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 49, 51, 53, 55, n. 133.