Corinth Object: I 632
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 632
Title:   EARLY ROMAN LATIN INSCRIPTION
    STAMPED ANTEFIX
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   632
Old Number:   I-667 (lapsed), I-680 (lapsed), I-573 (lapsed)
Related Objects:   I-633, I-164
Description:   Marble revetment inscription, letters very well cut. Back smoothly finished. Belongs with I-573 and I-633.
Marble revetment slab with inscription, sawn on back, smoothly finished in front; upper edge smooth with shallow cutting 0.18m from right edge, W. 0.032, in center of which is deep round hole (Diam. 0.005). Right edge partly sawn (?), partly rough picked with smooth edge.
Latin:
A: Cae[sa]ribus Augustis / [et] col(oniae) [La]ud(i) Iu[l(iae) / Cor(inthiensi)]
B: [ - - - ] AV [ - - - ] / [ - - - ] NS F [ - - - ]
English: For the Caesars Augusti and the Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis
    Terracotta stamped anteifx with stamp across bottom.
Writing:   inscribed. Two lines in Latin, interlinear space 0.040
    stamp. In Greek: A(PH)RODEISIOY
Material:   White marble.
    Reddish brown clay.
Condition:   Fragment. Ten joining frgts., preserving top edge and right side; broken other sides. Joins I-667 and I-680; both lapsed.
    Fragment. Single frgt., preserving about half of antefix.
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Area:   Julian Basilica
    Forum southwest
Context:   NB78 P167
    NB72 P138
    NB79 P528
Bibliography:   West 1931, Corinth 8.2, 11-12 no. 13, Dean 1922 p. 459, Scotton 2005, Scotton 2011 p.78-9, Corinth 22 I-2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Monument: Julian Basilica
Image: bw 2596
Image: digital 2015 2247
Basket: NB72 P138
Basket: NB78 P167
Basket: NB79 P528