| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 19 | |
| Title: | ROMAN INSCRIBED STATUE BASE: GREEK | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 19 | |
| Description: | Tall rectangular statue base. Back roughly picked with punch. Top worked with point. Shallow tenon hole Diam. 0.055 m, depth 0.036 m, set back 00.41+ from face. Second tenon hole near rt. Edge 0.25 from it. No evidence of feet. | |
| Decoration: | At bottom, tall fascia, flattened half round, cyma recta, fillet; tall shaft; crowning moulding: fillet, flattened quarter round, cyma reversa, and fascia, poss. 2-stepped. Mouldings worked on three faces. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Seven lines of text in Greek inscribed on one face, over previously erased inscription (S. Dow, 5-25-60), letter H. 0.03 m. | |
| Material: | Fine bluish marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete except for bottom moulding on left and right sides, back corners, much of back left edge; crowning moulding missing on all but part of front face. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 1.34, W. 0.73, Th. 0.70 m | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Area: | Propylaia | |
| Context: | Propylaia, Found at bottom of steps | |
| Findspot Description: | Bottom of steps leading to Propylaia | |
| Bibliography: | IG IV 1603;Powell 1903, AJA 7, pp.47-49, no. 23; Wolters 1904, RhM 1904, pp.157-158; Wilhelm 1905, BCH 29, pp.415-416, no.IX; Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, pp.66, cat.89; Brown 2012, Hesperia 81, p.164. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Monument: Propylaia Image: bw 0443 Image: bw 1654 Basket: Propylaia, Found at bottom of steps |
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