| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 12 | |
| Title: | INSCRIBED DEDICATORY BLOCK: GREEK | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Description: | Tall rectangular block with base and crowning mouldings, from bottom up: fascia, cavetto, flattened quarter round, tall shaft H00.094; crown: cyma recta, tall fascia; mouldings worked on 3 faces; back roughly picked. Sides worked with oblique chisel strokes. Top roughly picked; no cuttings preserved. Front: traces of lettrers,erased with claw except for bottom quarter. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on front face, Greek: PS(hphismata) B(oules) Two incised ivy leaves. | |
| Material: | Fine white marble | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete, two joining frgts., missing large chip in face, lt. side, front left top corner, upper half of back missing. inscription erased except for last line; S. Dow, 5/25/60: reports traces of earlier erased inscription made when block reversed. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H01.47 W00.735 T00.76 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Area: | Propylaia | |
| Context: | Propylaia, North of Propylaia | |
| Bibliography: | Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, cat. 108 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Monument: Propylaia Basket: Propylaia, North of Propylaia |
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