| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 2144 | |
| Title: | INSCRIBED TYMPANUM BLOCK FROM TEMPLE F: LATIN | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 2144 | |
| Description: | Tympanum block, deriving from center of tympanum, preserving lt. side . Lt. Joint has band c. 00.05 m. wide cut back with fine point from remaining, rough-picked surface; top dressed with point, back with coarse point. Rectangular cutting in top, set back 00.25 from front face, to back edge, L. 0.352 m, W. 0.25, Depth 0.175. Front face of block finely worked with a round projecting surface in center with roughluy picked face, surrounded by at least 5 small rectangular dowel holes, for a medallion originally attached; D. 0.45 - rough-picked surface, H. from bottom to top dowel 0.645. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Face inscribed, beginning at left joint, Latin, letter H. 0.101. | |
| Mythology: | Venus | |
| Material: | Fine white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving bottom, lower half of left edge, part of upper surface, back; broken at right just right of center. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.485 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.745, L. 01.45 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Augustan, early | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | Forum southwest, Provenance not recorded; west end of Forum | |
| Findspot Description: | Τemple F | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth I.3 pp. 61-62, Lemmerle 1938, BCH 62, p.458; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, p.33, cat. 56; | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Scranton, Corinth 1:3, 1951 Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Monument: Forum southwest Image: bw 1999 018 17 Basket: Forum southwest, Provenance not recorded; west end of Forum |
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