| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1998 3 | |
| Title: | MARBLE IONIC CORNER CAPITAL | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Description: | Ionic corner capital of large scale; on face a: top of concave channel curving into volute at lt. Base of anthemion between volute and echinus; above channel, and following spiral of volute is a single row of bead and reel; on face b, parts of two channels of volute with single row of bead and reel following spiral; on V-shaped bolster between two volute faces laurel branch(?). Abacus carved with egg-dart with pointed egg, and dart a simple vertical. Top worked with point. From same structure as A-1998-4, A-1996-5. Related is A-1998-2. | |
| Material: | Fine-crysrtalled white marble with micaceous veins. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving top of echinus on two sides, small part of volute, abacus on one face and corner. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.030 (abacus) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.114 L00.195 | |
| 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 18 Basket: NB912 B48 P139 Notebook Page: NB 912, spread 76 (pp. 138 - 139) |
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