Corinth Object: I 643
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   I 643
Title:   GREEK IMPERIAL DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION
Category Code:   I
Object Number:   643
Old Number:   I-675A (lapsed), I-675B (lapsed), I-815 (lapsed)
Description:   Marble pedestal inscription, letters poorly cut and inscribed on poorly worked face. Back lightly picked.
Writing:   inscribed. Nine lines of text in Greek preserved on one face, an initial line is hypothesised above but it has not been reconstructed.
Material:   Fine white marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving part of face, left side, back; broken remaining edges.
Period:   2nd c. A.C.
Chronology:   Soon after 103 AD.
Area:   Julian Basilica
Context:   NB79 P428
    NB79 P431
    NB75 P314
Findspot Description:   I-643 from the southwest corner of the Julian Basilica (built into bottom course of wall in inner quadrangle); I-675a and b, from west of the south end of the Southeast Building. One frgt., formerly I-815, with unknown place and date of discorvery.
Bibliography:   Meritt 1931, Corinth 8.1, pp.56-57, 159-160, cat. 75 and 307; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, pp.63-64, cat. 136; Pflaum 1960-1961, p.174, no.71; Scotton, De Grazia Vanderpool, Roncaglia 2022, Corinth 22, I-13.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931
Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966
Monument: Julian Basilica
Image: bw 1659
Image: bw 2002 017 12
Image: digital 2015 2298
Basket: NB75 P314
Basket: NB79 P428
Basket: NB79 P431
Notebook Page: NB 75, spread 63 (pp. 314 - 315)