Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 643 | |
Title: | GREEK IMPERIAL DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 643 | |
Old Number: | I-675A (lapsed), I-675B (lapsed), I-815 (lapsed) | |
Description: | Marble pedestal inscription, letters poorly cut and inscribed on poorly worked face. Back lightly picked. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Nine lines of text in Greek preserved on one face, an initial line is hypothesised above but it has not been reconstructed. | |
Material: | Fine white marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving part of face, left side, back; broken remaining edges. | |
Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
Chronology: | Soon after 103 AD. | |
Area: | Julian Basilica | |
Context: | NB79 P428 | |
NB79 P431 | ||
NB75 P314 | ||
Findspot Description: | I-643 from the southwest corner of the Julian Basilica (built into bottom course of wall in inner quadrangle); I-675a and b, from west of the south end of the Southeast Building. One frgt., formerly I-815, with unknown place and date of discorvery. | |
Bibliography: | Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, pp.56-57, 159-160, cat. 75 and 307; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, pp.63-64, cat. 136; Pflaum 1960-1961, p.174, no.71; Scotton, De Grazia Vanderpool, Roncaglia 2022, Corinth 22, I-13. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Monument: Julian Basilica Image: bw 1659 Image: bw 2002 017 12 Image: digital 2015 2298 Basket: NB75 P314 Basket: NB79 P428 Basket: NB79 P431 Notebook Page: NB 75, spread 63 (pp. 314 - 315) |