Corinth Object: I 24
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 24
Title:   ROMAN INSCRIBED ARCHITRAVE-FRIEZE: LATIN, GREEK
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   24
Related Objects:   I XXXX 0119?
Description:   Architrave-frieze block, recut by Byzantines and reinscribed. Original block: Architrave-frieze block with plain flat architrave, dressed with chisel, H00.087; crowning moulding H00.09, of cyma reversa and fascia; frieze has compound curve, H00.20; crowned by fillet, flattened quarter round. Top surface smoothly worked, back roughly picked with right 00.58 m. cut back at angle along the top. Pair of hook clamps in either end; pry hole 00.94 from lt. end, 2nd pry 00.24 from rt. end.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on frieze, Latin, Letter H00.076: ]MIVS PORTI[cum]
2nd painted inscription in red, Greek:
Material:   Fine white marble.
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete height, broken either end.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.44 T00.45
Dimensions Preserved:   L02.47
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   Block ER or MR; context Byzantine
Area:   Peirene
Context:   Peirene, Provenance not recorded
Bibliography:   AJA 1899 P683 Art and Arch. 1922 P206; Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, cat. 198; West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 129
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931
Publication: West, Corinth 8:2, 1931
Publication: Fowler, Art and Archaeology 14, 1922
Monument: Peirene
Image: bw 0377
Image: bw 1947
Image: bw 1998 041 36a
Basket: Peirene, Provenance not recorded
Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 10 (p. 13)
Notebook Page: NB 9c, spread 42