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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 465 | | Title: | | IONIC CAPITAL FROM NORTHWEST STOA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Object Number: | | 465 | | Description: | | Canted flaring volutes; echinus with egg and dart, palmette at joint of volute and echinus. 0.09 of shaft on captial block, preserving apophyge and half round. Flutes below apophyge cut back and reworked. Neither top nor bottom surface of block has empolion, dowel or clamp cuttings, both surfaces smooth with only weathering flaws. Hole in center of bottom surface is modern. This capital is one of those of Corinth I, part ii, p. 105, fig. 71. | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Three volutes preserved; over half of bolster and one volute missing. Side with volute missing has egg and dart echinus better preserved. Traces of stucco at shaft where there are indications of Roman reworking. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. of capital 0.238, Diam. of shaft of column 0.38 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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