| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 688 | |
| Title: | FINE PENTELIC MARBLE INSCRIBED SLAB | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 688 | |
| Description: | Marble slab with inscription, surfaces well finished. Cutting near right end at bottom of slab , giving uncertain clue of length of block (if cutting centered, slab L. ca. 1m; if two symmetical cuttings, L. ca. 1.80m). Letters very well cut; two marks of punctuation (short curved line above and slightly right) between words of first two lines, single mark of punctuation of third line. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Three lines in Latin. | |
| Material: | Fine white Pentelic marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving all original surfaces except right end. | |
| Area: | Julian Basilica | |
| Context: | NB79 P455 | |
| Bibliography: | West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 17; Corinth 20, 2003; AJA 1922, cat. 30, p. 461, fig. 11, Corinth 22 I-3 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Julian Basilica Image: bw 2278 Image: digital 2015 2249 Basket: NB79 P455 Notebook Page: NB 79, spread 33 (pp. 454 - 455) |
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