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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | A 2011 7 | Title: | | THREE FASCIA ARCHIVOLT, WHITE MARBLE VENEER | Category: | | Architecture | Category Code: | | A | Year: | | 2011 | Object Number: | | 7 | Description: | | Veneer slab, front face carved in low relief with three fasciae dressed by claw chisel with flat chiseled margins, blade ca. 0.015. Wide crowning moulding having highest projection from face above cyma reversa. H. of crowning filet 0.055, H. of cyma reversa 0.08, H. of top fascia 0.12, H. of second fascia 0.118, H. of bottom fascia 0.08. Vertical joint of archivolt on right edge preserves two drilled pin holes. Circular hole 0.10 below top; oblong pin hole at 0.027 below top surface. Back surface point dressed as sent from quarry. | Material: | | White Attic marble, without micaceous veining. | Condition: | | Fragment. Three joining frgts preserve full height of slab and portions of all four edges. | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.465, Th. 0.035 | Dimensions Preserved: | | W. 0.368 | Dimensions Restored: | | W. of slab at base 0.305, W. of slab at top 0.45 | Area: | | Theater | Context: | | Theater, context 2097 | Bibliography: | | Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 6 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: Theater
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