| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 862 | |
| Title: | NUMBER LAPSED | |
| EPISTYLE FRIEZE BLOCK (LAPSED) | ||
| ARCHAIC DORIC CAPITAL | ||
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 862 | |
| Old Number: | I-585 | |
| Related Objects: | I 585 | |
| Description: | Epistyle frieze block from colossal façade, upper order. Profile of Type A. Back roughly hewn. Mason's mark "T" at left (on second fascia) and "Y" at right (on uppermost fascia). Now on foundation of Colossal Façade, behind restoration of apse. Two clamps at each end of top; two pries on top. | |
| Doric capital with top of shaft w. 20 flutes, wide-spreading nearly flat echinus with 2 annulets with square tips, echinus articulated from abacus by channel, square abacus. Small square empolion cutting in bottom: 00.051 x 00.040Late chiseling on top of abacus. | ||
| Writing: | inscribed. | |
| Material: | Oolitic limestone | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Number lapsed. Joins I-585. | |
| Complete or intact. Complete. | ||
| Complete profile. Complete profile; back cut away, one corner broken. | ||
| Dimensions Actual: | L. 3.06 | |
| H00.288 H00.117 (abacus) W00.083 (abacus) D00.42 (column) | ||
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Ca. 580-570 B.C. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Find places unknown | |
| Findspot Description: | Place and date of finding unknown. | |
| A-18 was from Colossal Facade, upper order. | ||
| Brought from east end, Northwest Stoa | ||
| Bibliography: | West 1931, Corinth 8.2, p. 141 | |
| AthMitt 1984, p. 72, no. 2; Pfaff, Corinth 20, 2003. | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 7694 Image: digital 2015 2245 Basket: Early Excavations, Find places unknown |
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