Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 874 | |
Title: | GREEK IMPERIAL GRAVE STELE | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 874 | |
Description: | Thick slab, carved on front face as follows: an architectural frame with Ionic pilasters, fluted on upper 2/3 of shaft, 3-stepped architrave, frieze, dentils. Within frame a woman reclines to rt. on couch, torso 3/4 lt., face frontal. Wears hair in a bun on top of head, clinging garment, over which a himation; couch has two raised ends and back. Her sandals rest on small stool before couch. In front, a second draped figure sits on a low stool with feet on a footstool, in front of a low 3-legged table on which two bowls and a small pitcher. To lower rt. a crouching dog. Above, a suspended simplied swag from which hangs a wreath. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscribed below entablature with two lines of Greek: Apollonia / Eouporia | |
Material: | Dense gray-white marble. | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete except for two left corners; chips in right edge. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.55, W. 0.46, Th. 0.10 | |
Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
Chronology: | 3rd-4th c. | |
Area: | Outside Korinth | |
Context: | Outside Korinth | |
Bibliography: | Arch.Delt. 1918 par. I,7, N9; SEG I 65; Corinth 8.1 P90 N133 | |
Site: | Outside Korinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Meritt, Corinth 8:1, 1931 Monument: Outside Korinth Images (4) Basket: Outside Korinth |