| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1070 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE TEMPLUM SCREEN | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Object Number: | 1070 | |
| Description: | Screen from templum with fascia at bottom H00.075, narrow tipped fascia H00.02, 3rd fascia H00.05; plain field H00.59, crowned by same progression of mouldings, same size except for top fascia H00.08 m. Field, side A: covered with elaborate pattern of tangent double semi-circles: one set of semi-circles upright, one upside down, and two sets turned sideways to touch in center. In center of each is a 3-petal lotus with broad groove down center of each petal; in angles at bottom and top of field are similar but smaller lotus buds. Side B: large circle in low relief, D00.59, in center of which a large cross outlined; cross has unequal arms, flaring tips, extends from bottom to top of field. Whole slab worked with flat chisel; coarse point on bottom edge, point covered by flat chisel on top edge. | |
| Material: | Coarse-crystalled white marble with vertical foliation. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Several joining frgts., giving bottom, top and both faces; broken to right and left. May 29, 2000: broken by Greek school child, now 6 large frgts., numerous small chips. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.915 T00.065 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W00.14 | |
| Period: | Early Christian - give preference to periods | |
| Chronology: | Early Christian | |
| Area: | Provenance Unknown | |
| Context: | Provenance Unknown, Not from excavations; found before 1953. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Provenance Unknown Basket: Provenance Unknown, Not from excavations; found before 1953. |