Corinth Object: A 374
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   A 374
Title:   WHITE MARBLE CAPITAL FROM MONUMENT BASE
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   A
Object Number:   374
Description:   The capital consisted of two section. The upper section was a plain cylindrical shaft, 0.08 m. high, crowned by a plain moulding and worked with fine chisel. The lower section is also a cylindrical shaft, 0.18 m. high, with festooned upper border worked with fine chisel. The surface of the lower section is smooth and was decorated with lotus flowers alternating with palmettes. A whole palmette and a whole lotus flower, also the left hald of a second palmette and the right outer leaf of a lotus flower are perserved. On the top the capital shows two dowel holes, on the bottom it shows an anathyrosis.
Condition:   Fragment. The fragment shows a crack on its left upper part. The crowning moulding is mostly broken off. The relief is in good condition.
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   Forum southeast
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southeast
Image: bw 3679
Basket: Forum southeast
Notebook Page: NB 135, spread 23 (pp. 36 - 37)