Corinth Object: A 1998 8
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   A 1998 8
Title:   PLASTER MOLDING
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   A
Year:   1998
Object Number:   8
Description:   Thick plaster block with smooth and flat back surface, one edge that looks as if pressed against a form, second flat over which uneven layer of plaster. Front face smooth, preserving part of decorative element in low relief but sunk deeply into surface; set 0.074 m. below one edge; preserved is low relief of S-shaped motif, like the tail of a fish. Along one broken edge is part of a graffito. In break can see that made in two layers 0.024 and 0.019 m. thick. See A-1998-5 A-1998-7, A-1998-9 for more.
Writing:   graffito. Graffito scratched along one side, at rt. angles to edge with formwork: NV or NY.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., corner with parts of two sides, both faces.
Dimensions Actual:   T00.045
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.128 W00.104
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   ? 71 ? late 1st or 2nd c. A.C. ?
Area:   Ioannou Bath east of Great Bath
Context:   Ioannou Bath east of Great Bath, From excavation dump (Greek Archaeological Service
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Ioannou Bath east of Great Bath
Image: bw 1998 028 33
Basket: Ioannou Bath east of Great Bath, From excavation dump (Greek Archaeological Service