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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | A 991 | Title: | | POROS MONOLITHIC CYLINDRICAL ALTAR | Category: | | Architecture | Category Code: | | A | Object Number: | | 991 | Description: | | Poros monolithic cylindrical altar. Rectangular dowel cutting on undersurface 0.036 by 0.04, 0.041, m. deep, in axis of shaft, 0.06 m. high base zone with reveal at bottom, slight recess at top. Above is base moulding of cyma reversa and apophyge, plain tapered shaft with fascia and apophyge at top, crowning moulding cyma reversa and cavetto. At top third cyma reversa contracts top horizontal surface (not preserved) to est. Diam. 0.230 m. top horizontal surface preserves trace of 0.02 by 0.025 m. dowel cutting in axis shaft. No trace of stucco. | Material: | | Poros, sandy in texture, without veins. | Condition: | | Complete profile. Missing over half of its crowning moulding, all top surface. | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.40, Diam. max. at base 0.254, Diam. above base mouldings 0.214, Diam. crowning fascia 0.205 | Period: | | Classical | Chronology: | | Possibly Hellenistic. | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | FIB inv. 1980. | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece |
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