Corinth Object: I 391
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 391
Title:   MARBLE INSCRIPTION
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   391
Description:   Marble inscription, possibly Corinthian honorary decree, with channelled band or moulding (W. 0.005); frame and inscribed surface in same plane. The effect of relief obtained in the old way, by bevelling close to frame. Scratched horizontal guide lines for letters and also beneath them, indicating at least two more rows, diminishing in height, of letters on the stone. Letters poorly cut.
Writing:   inscribed. Two lines in Greek.
1st: [-]A
2nd: [-e]DOXE.
Material:   Marble
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving original right side with border and portions of back. Broken at top, left, and bottom.
Period:   2nd c. A.C.
Chronology:   possibly, according to AJA 1919
Findspot Description:   July 27, 1905. Near West end of Wall A on Plan April 15 1903- extension of 1905, precinct east of Glauke.
Bibliography:   Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, cat. 9; AJA 1919, p. 346, no. 66
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 0707
Image: digital 2011 7217