Corinth Object: I 1755
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 1755
Title:   ROMAN INSCRIBED ARCHITRAVE BLOCK: LATIN
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   1755
Description:   Architrave block from eastern schola of Bema: 3-stepped fasciae: H00.07, H00.091 H00.103; crowning moulding H00.08: fillet, cyma reversa, fascia. Top beveled, rough. Anathyrosis on end; face finely finished.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on top fascia, Latin, letter H00.072:
]VIR ET II VIR Q S P F C[
Material:   Fine white marble.
Condition:   Complete profile. Preserving nearly complete block, crowning moulding at top right; broken at right.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.36 L01.53 T00.026-00.031
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   Augustan ?
Area:   Central Shops
Context:   NB159 P238
Bibliography:   Corinth VIII.3, cat. no. 157; Corinth I.3, p. 96, pl. 43.2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Scranton, Corinth 1:3, 1951
Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966
Monument: Central Shops
Image: bw 1961 041 12
Image: bw 1961 041 13
Image: bw 1999 018 31
Basket: NB159 P238
Notebook Page: NB 159, spread 32 (pp. 237 - 238)