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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 1069 | | Title: | | ROMAN MARBLE FOUNTAIN SPOUT | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Object Number: | | 1069 | | Description: | | A roughly rectangular block, present bottom smooth; one face vertical, roughly picked with smooth band W00.04 along one vertical edge; 2 adjacent sides roughly vertical and sculpted, but rounded at top; 4th face forms a projecting ledge at bottom, now broken away, above which face vertical but tapering at top. Center of block pierced vertically by a large hole D00.046-00.047 m., which widens somewhat toward bottom; at 00.035 m. below top, hole opens into a "bowl" surrounded by a raised round lip D00.14 m. The block is sculpted on 3 sides with fish: on 2 vertical sides, fish alternately right side up and upside down, in low relief, others placed along bottom, and swimming around perimeter of bowl with spout. On 3rd side, a single large dolphin in high relief, placed upright with beak overlapping top of block, on a roughly picked background. | | Material: | | Fine-crystalled white marble, vertical laminations. | | Condition: | | Complete profile. ? Single block, complete profile (?), preserving part of bottom (?), four sides, top; unclear whether bottom, in fact, original; broken along bottom of one side, at corners and part of one face; surface badly worn. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.255 W00.30 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L00.325 | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | Roman | | Area: | | West Shops | | Context: | | West Shops, Exact provenance unknown, from early excavations. | | Bibliography: | | Robinson 2013, Hesperia 82.2, fig. 19 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: West Shops
Image: bw 1997 029 26
Basket: West Shops, Exact provenance unknown, from early excavations.
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