| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 10 | |
| Title: | LATE GREEK INSCRIBED BLOCK | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 10 | |
| Description: | Rectangular block: bottom, possible anathyrosis along front edge, rest worked with coarse claw; face: bottom moulding on front face only: full Ht. 0.148: cavetto with upright acanthus leaf H00.042, ovolo with egg-dart H00.045, cyma reversa largely broken away with leaf-dart. Surface cut back 0.14 to vertical face H00.41 with narrow fascia at bottom, surface smoothed. Top roughly picked: dowel 00.08 square set in 00.17 from rt. edge, 00.215 from front, pour channel L00.23 extending toward back, metal in it; small conical cutting 00.395 in from rt. edge, largely broken, depth 00.07; large oval cutting c. 00.84 in from rt. edge, 00.40 from front face, P.L. 00.14, depth 00.12. Low relief decoration on rt. face: at lt. cross with double cross arm (?) within an arch; to rt. maltese cross in a circle. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed in Greek above and below rt. cross: + | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving all but left end; base moulding missing on right side, and right end of front face; half of front missing above moulding. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.53 T00.805 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L01.33 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman or later ? | |
| Area: | Propylaia | |
| Context: | Propylaia, Built into late wall at top of steps leading to Pr | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1903 P63 N43 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Powell, American Journal of Archaeolog7:1... 1903 Monument: Propylaia Image: bw 1635 Image: bw 1999 018 09 Basket: Propylaia, Built into late wall at top of steps leading to Pr Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 10 (p. 13) |
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