| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 1972 5 | |
| Title: | GREEK INSCRIPTION | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Year: | 1972 | |
| Object Number: | 5 | |
| Description: | Greek inscription, almost certainly from older Temple of Apollo. | |
| Decoration: | Gray surface probably not stucco (too thin) but represents a calcining of outer 'skin; of stone by heat, common to other blocks of older Temple of Apollo. Guidelines on burned surface at intervals of 0.11. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Eight lines in Greek: 1st: [-]A[-] 2nd: [-]MTE[-] 3rd: [-]AISEGI[-] 4th: [-]OKHAYT[-] 5th: [-]N(TH)IWNTA[-] 6th: [-]STAME[-] 7th: [-]ISTA[-] 8th: [-]E[-] | |
| Material: | Fine, buff poros limestone. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around; back missing. Damaged by fire at surface and discolored gray.. | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB521 B47 P179 | |
| Bibliography: | Iversen 2018, Hesperia | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 1972 116 26 Image: digital 2011 7228 Basket: NB521 B47 P179 Notebook Page: NB 521, spread 94 (p. 179) |
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