| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 17 | |
| Title: | ROMAN INSCRIBED STATUE BASE: GREEK | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 17 | |
| Related Objects: | I-018 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Tall rectangular statue base (as joined). Three surfaces finely worked with claw chisel. Back flat, roughly worked with punch. Top: roughly picked, 2 foot prints with tenons for statue at least life-size. Lt. print set in 0.11 from lt. side, 0.22 from front, L. 0.33-00.34, W. 0.105 (ball); dowel under instep D. 0.05, larger one under heel with wider cutting around it; same for rt. Foot. Right foot forward, lt. back and turned out slightly to side. Text inscribed over erased area of an earlier text. | |
| Decoration: | Mouldings on three sides, from bottom up: high fascia, flattened half round, cyma recta, fillet, apophyge, tall shaft; at top, fillet, flattened quarter round, cavetto, 2 fasciae, second stepped back slightly with floral element in low relief at either front corner. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on front face, nine lines of text in Greek, with a big empty space between line 8 and 9, letter H. 0.04 m. Lunate sigmas and epsilon and cursive omegas are used. The readings of ll.7 and 8 are uncertain (Nastasi). | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Original: single frgt., preserving upper third of block; joined to I-18, giving complete height. S. Dow, 5-25-60. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.70m, Th. 0.069m, H. 01.60 (new) m, H. 0.875 (shaft) m | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.95 (old) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Area: | Propylaia | |
| Context: | Propylaia, Byzantine steps leading up to Propylaea: I-14 foun | |
| Findspot Description: | Byzantine steps leading up to Propylaia. | |
| Bibliography: | IG IV 1602 and 1604; Powell 1903, AJA 7, pp.45-47, n.22 and pp.52-53, n.27; Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, pp.65-66, cat. 88; Brown 2012, Hesperia 81.1, p.163. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Publication: Powell, American Journal of Archaeolog7:1... 1903 Monument: Propylaia Image: bw 1660 Basket: Propylaia, Byzantine steps leading up to Propylaea: I-14 foun Notebook Page: NB 555, spread 17 (pp. 24 - 25) |
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