| Inventory Number: A 701 |
| Section Number: Ε 493 |
| Title: Sima and Akroterion Base Fragment |
| Category: Architecture Marble |
| Description: Corner sima, cut in one piece with the extremities of both the horizontal and raking sima. The sinking for the statue plinth has a curved outline. Beside the main sinking are two drilled hole perhaps intended for support of attributes, etc. Within the main plinth cutting is another rough-picked rectangular cutting, as for an irregular tenon, sinking to an additional depth of ca. 0.02m., cf. Hesperia 9 (1940) p. 37. The sima is of cyma reversa profile with at narrow fillet at the top. On the horizontal sima is a trace of a lion's head spout and on the raking sima of a painted palmette. Excellent workmanship. Pentelic marble. For other fragments of the same series of raking sima, see A 394 and A 439, for lion's heads, see A 272. These pieces probably all belong to the rebuilt 5th century building. Assigned to either the Temple of Ares or the Temple of Hephaistos. |
| Keyword: UV |
| Context: From a marble pile at the N.E. corner of the Hellenistic Metroon. |
| Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 31/7 |
| Negatives: Leica, 9-31, XIX-82, 86-109 |
| PD Numbers: PD 608, PD 1857 |
| Dimensions: H. (sima) 0.238; D. (sinking for the statue plinth) 0.06, (drilled holes) 0.015; W. (rectangular cutting) 0.055; P.L. (rectangular cutting) 0.093 |
| Material: Marble (Pentelic) |
| Date Of Discovery: 11 March 1937 |
| Section: Ε |
| Grid: I 8 |
| Building: Temple of Ares |
| Temple of Hephaistos |
| Bibliography: Camp (2007), p. 59, fig. 72. |
| AJA 80 (1976), pp. 232, 234, 237, 238, 240, pls. 39, 40, ill. 7. |
| AJA 78 (1974), pp. 224, 236, nn. 31, 47. |
| Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 112 ff. |
| Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 3, 36, n. 9, fig. 19. |
| Published Type: Hesperia 9 (1940) p. 37. |
| A 272 |
| A 394 |
| A 439 |
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