| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 15 | |
| Title: | MARBLE INSCRIBED BASE: LATIN | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 15 | |
| Description: | Oriented with inscription as front face: tall rectangular block with mouldings at bottom and top on front and lt. side. Bottom: fascia H00.05, cyma reversa H00.078; front and lt. side worked with fine claw, rt. side smooth where original surface recut. Top: traces of point, roughly smoothed; 2 rectangular dowels: 1) 00.031 x 00.015, in 00.14 from front, 00.095 from rt. edge; 2) 00.032 x 00.026, 00.23 from front, 00.13 from rt. edge. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed in latin on one face Letter H00.03-00.042. First line set in 00.03 from lt. edge; recutting removed rt. edge:L.PAPIO.L.F.FAL.LVPERCOAED.ET.IIVIR.ETAGONOTHETIC.ETQUINQ.ORNAMENORNATO.D.DPAPIA.L.F.DONATI.VXOMETHE.AVIA | |
| Material: | Fine white marble. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, bottom, top, front and two sides preserved, broken in back; top moulding broken away, bottom one broken across front, part of lt. side; large break along lt. edge of top. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.93 W00.295 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.625 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Propylaia | |
| Context: | Propylaia, Built into Byzantine ramp to Propylaia, west end o | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1922 P456 N21; West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 105 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: West, Corinth 8:2, 1931 Publication: Dean, American Journal of Archaeolog26:4... 1922 Monument: Propylaia Image: bw 1788 Image: bw 1999 018 10 Basket: Propylaia, Built into Byzantine ramp to Propylaia, west end o Notebook Page: NB 10, spread 18 (p. 27) |
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