Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | A 1996 5 | |
Title: | IONIC CAPITAL | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | A | |
Year: | 1996 | |
Object Number: | 5 | |
Description: | Ionic capital with egg and dart and bead and reel moulding on abacus, egg and dart on echinus carved as running behind crisply-carved, 3-petalled palmette in corners of volutes, acanthus leaf with tear drop eyes along edges of foliage on side over bolster. Bottom surface worked with claw chisel; top worked smoothly except for band (W. 0.10) long face, that is worked with claw, deep drill holes in palmette | |
Writing: | inscribed. Nu inscribed on bottom | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with vertical foliation plane, crystals ca. 1 mm. | |
Condition: | Fragment. 1/3 front and side, full height, but missing most of both faces; one angle palmette and egg of echinus. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.153 W00.480 (abacus) H00.080 (echinus) H00.026 (canalis) H00.047 (abacus) | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Early Roman, Context 4th-5th c. | |
Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
Context: | NB885 B140 P169 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Basket: NB885 B140 P169 Notebook Page: NB 885, spread 89 (p. 169) |