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| 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)
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