Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 24 | |
Title: | ROMAN INSCRIBED ARCHITRAVE-FRIEZE: LATIN, GREEK | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 24 | |
Related Objects: | I XXXX 0119? | |
Description: | Architrave-frieze block, recut by Byzantines and reinscribed. Original block: Architrave-frieze block with plain flat architrave, dressed with chisel, H00.087; crowning moulding H00.09, of cyma reversa and fascia; frieze has compound curve, H00.20; crowned by fillet, flattened quarter round. Top surface smoothly worked, back roughly picked with right 00.58 m. cut back at angle along the top. Pair of hook clamps in either end; pry hole 00.94 from lt. end, 2nd pry 00.24 from rt. end. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed on frieze, Latin, Letter H00.076: ]MIVS PORTI[cum] 2nd painted inscription in red, Greek: | |
Material: | Fine white marble. | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Complete height, broken either end. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.44 T00.45 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L02.47 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Block ER or MR; context Byzantine | |
Area: | Peirene | |
Context: | Peirene, Provenance not recorded | |
Bibliography: | AJA 1899 P683 Art and Arch. 1922 P206; Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, cat. 198; West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 129 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Publication: West, Corinth 8:2, 1931 Publication: Fowler, Art and Archaeology 14, 1922 Monument: Peirene Image: bw 0377 Image: bw 1947 Image: bw 1998 041 36a Basket: Peirene, Provenance not recorded Notebook Page: NB 8, spread 10 (p. 13) Notebook Page: NB 9c, spread 42 |