|
|
| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | AM 262 | | Title: | | MARBLE IMPOST | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | AM | | Object Number: | | 262 | | Description: | | Marble impost of fine, sharp, detailed work. Compare work at Delphi (Laurent, B.C.H., 23, 1899, p. 220, fig. 5A) and Basilica A at Phthiotic Thebes (Soteriou, Arx. Eph., 1929, p. 65, fig. 70), the latter about 450, the former fifth-sixth century. | | Decoration: | | Chi-rho cross monogram within a circle, flanked by a water leaf and an acanthus at the corner on each side. Similar to AM-46 (Scranton 1957, Corinth 16, cat. 110). | | Material: | | Unusually hard, crystalline, white marble, marred by darker veins and a large irregular nodule of larger crystals of the darker material. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt. | | Period: | | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | | Chronology: | | based on comparanda listed in Corinth 16 | | Bibliography: | | Scranton 1957, Corinth 16, cat. 109 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 7717
|
|
|