Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | A 1997 6 | |
Title: | FRANKISH DOOR JAMB | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | A | |
Year: | 1997 | |
Object Number: | 6 | |
Description: | Door jamb consisting of a thick block, thickest at rt., thinning to lt. Rt. face worked with anathyrosis along front edge, rest rough-picked. Lt. edge has from front to back a half-round continuing onto front face, concave channel, narrow fascia, wider fascia W. 0.05 projecting ca. 0.004. Back roughly picked. Front face carved as follows from lt. to rt.: continuation of corner half-round, a band W. 0.105, carved with a vertical row of rectangles, each filled with schematic double lotus pattern; tangent rectangles joined by interlace as well as to fillet on either long side of band; then roughly chiseled half-round W. 0.027, concave channel W. 0.025, narrow fascia 0.012, wide fascia 0.055. Flat chisel over all. | |
Material: | Dense fine marble or Acrocorinth limestone. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken bottom and top, preserving other faces. | |
Dimensions Actual: | W00.258 T00.12-00.18 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.488 | |
Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
Chronology: | Context Frankish | |
Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
Context: | Temple E, Southeast, From rubble fall on roadway east of Building 6 aro | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: bw 2003 003 06 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, From rubble fall on roadway east of Building 6 aro |