| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1998 2 | |
| Title: | MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL: VOLUTE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Elaborate volute of a large-scale Ionic capital; parts of two channels of volute preserved, deeply concave, with double row of carefully carved bead and reel surrounding circumference of volute, and a single row between channels. Bolster decorated with leaves: row of water leaves between which spear-shaped leaves; tip of acanthus leaf over these at break. Fragment broken in antiquity and mended; two pin holes in broken face D. 0.009, set 0.058 m. apart. While capital resembles A-1998-3, A-1998-4, workmanship finer, bolster more elaborately carved. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving less than half of volute, small part of bolster. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.16 W00.07 Depth00.063 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | W00.17 (volute) | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | 1st c., context late Roman | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB912 B48 P139 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1998 024 19 Image: bw 1998 024 20 Basket: NB912 B48 P139 Notebook Page: NB 912, spread 76 (pp. 138 - 139) |
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