| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 881 | |
| Title: | ROMAN GRAVE STELE | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 881 | |
| Description: | Rectangular stele crowned by a pediment, outlined by fascia, with projecting anthemion at either corner, moulding at base. Back roughly picked. In center of pediment in low relief, an amphora with tall pedestal foot. Beneath pediment is a broad band, raised slightly above rest of stele. Inscription begins here, two lines, continuing with two lines below. Remainder of stele plain. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed in Greek, four lines, H00.015 (letters): | |
| Material: | Acrocorinth limestone ? | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken below, preserving most of upper portion, broken at apex of pediment. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.042 T00.125 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.51 | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | Roman | |
| Area: | St. John's | |
| Context: | NB169 P345 | |
| Bibliography: | Le Bas-Fourcart, Voyage archeologique II, p. 91.Dragatsis, Parnassos, 1881 P341; Monceaux, Gazette archeologique 1885 P409; IG IV 398; Corinth 8,1 N134. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Monument: St. John's Image: bw 1998 034 19a Image: bw 1998 034 20a Basket: NB169 P345 |
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