Corinth Object: A 1999 5
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   A 1999 5
Title:   INSCRIBED MARBLE BASE, PROBABLY OF IONIC COLUMN
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   A
Year:   1999
Object Number:   5
Description:   Thick block, bottom and top surfaces worked with claw chisel. Possibly core of an Ionic base; cf. A-1999-4, found with it, and A-1999-3A-B.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on upper surface: A with broken bar H00.047
Munsell Color:   Very fine-crystalled dense gray marble with vertical foliations
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of top and bottom, broken all edges.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.216
Dimensions Preserved:   MPDim00.365
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   Early Roman, context Middle Byzantine
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB920 B4 P11
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 1999 043 25
Image: bw 1999 043 26
Basket: NB920 B4 P11
Notebook Page: NB 920, spread 10 (pp. 10 - 11)