Corinth Object: I 178
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 178
Title:   GREEK IMPERIAL DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   178
Description:   Rectangular block, front and sides faces smoothly finished. Top worked with anathyrosis, band 0.10 m. wide, within which surface roughly picked.
Writing:   inscribed. Greek. Parts of four lines. Letter H: l.1: 0.045 m, l.2: 0.037 m, l.3: 0.038 m.
Material:   Yellow Acrocorinth limestone
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving face, top, two sides; broken below and back.
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   Claudian
Area:   Lechaion Road west
Context:   NB13 P6
Findspot Description:   Late wall in southern part of the Lechaion Road Basilica. Discovered when dismantling north and south wall ca. 3 m west of Shop III.
Bibliography:   Smith 1919, p.379, no.85; Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, pp.53-54, cat. 70.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931
Monument: Lechaion Road west
Image: bw 0704
Basket: NB13 P6
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