Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 784 | |
Title: | LATIN BUILDING INSCRIPTION | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 784 | |
Related Objects: | I-785 | |
Description: | Large rectangular slab, front face smoothly finished, edges worked with anathyrosis, back roughly picked. Clamp cutting 0.347 m. from right edge W. 0.030, H. 0.037, cutting through top, front face. Second small rectangular dowel hole 0.105 m. from rt.edge. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on one face with parts of five lines of Latin. Associated with I-785 as part of dedication by Cornelii. I-784 contains the biggest part of text. I-785 contains only the first half of the first line, Q CORNELIV. | |
Material: | Fine white marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Ten joining frgts., complete except for left edge. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.614, Th. 0.055 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.98 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | End of the reign of Augustus-beginning of the reign of Tiberius | |
Area: | Lechaion Road | |
Context: | NB87 P88 | |
Findspot Description: | Lechaion Road, south of the Old Museum. From floor of large northwest room in exedra area. | |
Bibliography: | West 1931, Corinth VIII.2, pp.103-104, cat.125 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: West, Corinth 8:2, 1931 Monument: Lechaion Road Image: bw 1972 Basket: NB87 P88 Notebook Page: NB 87, spread 49 (pp. 88 - 89) |