Corinth Object: I 70
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 70
Title:   LATIN BUILDING INSCRIPTION
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   70
Old Number:   I-xxxx-0052
Related Objects:   I-XXXX-0067 (lapsed) I-XXXX-0117 (lapsed)
Description:   Thick slab, finely worked on front face, anathyrosis on edges, back roughly picked. Small rectangularcutting in top surface (ancien ?) 0.024 m. from back edge. Part of dedication of macellus byCornelii.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on one face in Latin, parts of 5 lines, ]Q.CO[ / MAEC[ / SECV / MACELLV[ / INEA.LOC[Letter hts: 1, 0.09, 2, 0.055, 4, 0.045, 5, 0.040
Material:   Fine white marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving left edge, bottom; add. joins: three in all, giving top, bottom, left edge.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.55 T00.077
Dimensions Preserved:   W00.0320
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   2nd quarter 1st
Area:   Provenance Unknown
Context:   Provenance Unknown, EArly excavations, perhaps along LechaionRd. (Cor.
Bibliography:   West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 124; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 321
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: West, Corinth 8:2, 1931
Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966
Monument: Provenance Unknown
Image: bw 1947
Image: bw 8581
Basket: Provenance Unknown, EArly excavations, perhaps along LechaionRd. (Cor.