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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 1991 4 | | Title: | | IONIC COLUMN CAPITAL | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Year: | | 1991 | | Object Number: | | 4 | | Decoration: | | Reused as the base for the southernmost (fourth) column of the north colonnade east of Unit 1 (west colonnade of the plaza). Its original bearing surface was placed face upward and with its bolsters protruding from the gravel of the area east of Unit 1. According to Williams, the Frankish builders erected the shaft upside-down after chipping away the apophyge around the top of the shaft in order to make its larger diameter fit onto the smaller Ionic capital. He mistakenly says this with respect to the third column from the north, but the photo in pl. 1 clearly shows that it is the fourth column that is meant. So far as I can determine, a fallen column was found only next to the second original column base from the north. | | Material: | | Marble: white | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L. 0.545; W. ca. 0.36 (face to face of volutes); Diam. of top of bedding for upper end of column shaft 0.360 | | Period: | | Roman | | Bibliography: | | Williams and Zervos 1997, p. 15, pl. 1. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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