Agora Object: A 1812
Inventory Number:   A 1812
Section Number:   Ε 602
Title:   Epikranitis Block Fragments
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Six fragments, non joining, but believed to come from the same block.
a) Fragment of right end, broken along left side and back. Hawk's beak on front projects 0.028m. In the higher back part is a clamp cutting (for T-clamp), 0.395m. from front edge. The cutting seems to have been used twice: first and second half-clamp.
b) Fragment from left end, broken in front, back and on right side. Possibly the edge of a clamp-cutting visible in part of top. Dowel cutting in underside of right edge.
c) Fragment from upper forward surface; broken all around.
d) Fragment of forward part; a little of top and bottom surface preserved.
e) Fragment preserving front top and bottom surfaces.
f) Fragment preserving part of top and bottom surfaces.
From Temple of Ares.
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   Found at J/11-8/1 (Fall 2016).
Context:   Removal of Byzantine walls along road between Gymnasium and Byzantine houses.
Notebook Page:   1107
Negatives:   Leica, 81-80
PD Number:   PD 961
Dimensions:   P.L. a) 0.43, b) 0.307, e) (in front) 0.36, f) ca. 0.31; P.W. a) (without the hawks beak on the front) 0.81, b) 0.16, e) 0.34, f) ca. 0.18; H. a) (in front) 0.225, a) (in back) 0.305, b) (in front) 0.225, b) (in back) 0.305, d) 0.225, e) (in front) 0.225, f) (in front) 0.225; W. a) (lower front part) 0.28; L. a) (first half-clamp) ca. 0.13, a) (second half-clamp) 0.17; D. b) (dowel cutting) ca. 0.05; Max. Dim. c) 0.24
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   9 May 1951
Section:   Ε
Bibliography:   Hesperia 28 (1959), pp. 24, 25, 26, 37, nn. 56, 97, figs. 13, 14.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 28 (1959)
Report: 1951 Ε
Report Page: 1951 Ε, s. 6
Monument: Temple of Ares
Drawing: PD 778 (DA 4515)
Drawing: PD 961 (DA 4529)
Images (4)
Notebook: Ε-6
Notebook: Ε-7
Notebook Page: Ε-7-26 (pp. 1210-1211)
Notebook Page: Ε-7-27 (pp. 1212-1213)
Notebook Page: Ε-7-51 (pp. 1260-1261)
Card: A 1812
Card: A 1812