Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | A 1999 6 | |
Title: | MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL: ECHINUS | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | A | |
Year: | 1999 | |
Object Number: | 6 | |
Description: | Echinus with roughly picked resting surface, projecting beyond edge of echinus. Echinus decorated with egg-dart: eggs deeply cut, pointed tip, dart is triangular with sharp axial rib. Ridge outlining lt. egg not sharply articulated at lt. break, possibly from lt. edge of echinus ? Poss. fine drill used to outline eggs. Larger than series of A-1999-001,-002 etc. | |
Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with micaceous veins. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving resting surface, probably full profile of echinus with parts of two eggs, one dart. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.07 (echinus) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.083 L00.134 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Early Roman? Context 10th c. | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB913 B49 P117 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1999 045 17a Basket: NB913 B49 P117 |