Google Earth| Inventory Number: S 2525 |
| Section Number: ΒΓ 1676 |
| Title: Altar |
| Category: Sculpture |
| Description: Battered and broken off at top. Round altar, which sits on plinth with two fasciae, the upper one recessed 0.042m. Moldings on altar, from bottom, are two fasciae, the upper one recessed 0.045m., and cyma reversa. The altar has four triglyphs and four metopes. Each metope is carved with a boukranion garlanded with bead and reel with lotuses at the end. Altar proper is of Pentelic marble; plinth of Hymettian marble. |
| Notes: Catalogued 7 June 1973. |
| Context: On south side of Panathenaic way. |
| Storage: On Site-Section ΒΓ |
| Negatives: Leica, 87-400 |
| PD Numbers: PD 2209 |
| Dimensions: P.H. (altar) 0.69; H. (plinth) 0.25, (lower fascia of plinth) 0.10, (upper fascia of plinth) o.15, (lower fascia of altar) 0.10, (upper fascia of altar) 0.03; Diam. (lower molding of plinth)1.445, (upper molding of plinth) 1.365, (lower part of altar) 1.20, (from femur of triglyph) 0.975 |
| Material: Marble |
| Date Of Discovery: 7 June 1973 |
| Section: ΒΓ |
| Grid: K/9,10-5/15,16 |
| Longitude: 23.722780 |
| Latitude: 37.975960 |
| Period: Hellenistic |
| Bibliography: Guide (1990), p. 101, fig. 55. |
| Guide (1976), p. 101, fig. 144. |
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