Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 1035 | |
Title: | GAIUS VIBIUS EUELPISTUS INSCRIPTION | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 1035 | |
Old Number: | I-1134 lapsed | |
Description: | Rectangular slab, cut from an earlier block or slab, back smooth but with a projecting band at the top which has been dressed down, top, where preserved, and left edge worked smooth, bottom edge worked with claw chisel. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscription cut on face, five lines, Greek, L.H. 0.016-0.024. I-1035 contains the left part and I-1134 (now lapsed) contains the right part. | |
Material: | Coarse grained grayish marble. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments, mended, I-1035 and I-1134, preserving all but the right border and bottom right corner of the inscription. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.190, Th. 0.044 | |
Dimensions Restored: | L. 0.255 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Last quarter second century or first quarter of the third. Date based on provenience, lettering of slab. | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, grid C:1, 2 m below temple rock (I-1035) and Lerna area (I-1134) | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, pp. 156-157, Pl. 65; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, p.90, cat.206 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Image: bw 2879 Image: bw 3819 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 83 (pp. 156 - 157) Notebook Page: NB 136, spread 49 (pp. 88 - 89) |