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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 1079b | | Title: | | MARBLE CORINTHIAN CAPITAL: CORNER VOLUTE | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Object Number: | | 1079 | | Object Suffix: | | b | | Related Objects: | | A 1079A | | Description: | | Corinthian capital: from left or back face of corner volute: at bottom part of 2nd ring of acanthus leaf, pointed leafed with long triangular eyes between petals; leaf folds over at top. Behind and resting on it is long volute with a squared projecting rib on outer face, spiraling outward in three rotations. Tooling: flat chisel and point, no drill. Broken from 2nd capital from east end, south side, of Temple E. | | Material: | | Moderately coarse-crystal striated white marble with laminating fractures. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., broken by tourist from capital: upper corner acanthus leaf and volute. Part of same corner volute as A 1079A, this being back face. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.305 | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Chronology: | | Hadrianic? | | Area: | | Temple E | | Context: | | Temple E, Context unknown, presumably destruction debris of | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Temple E
Image: bw 2004 024 14
Basket: Temple E, Context unknown, presumably destruction debris of
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