Agora Object: A 257
Inventory Number:   A 257
Section Number:   ΟΕ 2
Title:   Cornice Block: Ionic
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Full height preserved, one end and back broken away; anathyrosis on preserved end. Evidence of clamp-cuttings on top. 0.350m. back from the front horizontal cornice, the top is finished at an angle to receive the raking cornice.
From the Hellenistic Metroon.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 339.
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Notes:   Found at H/6-10/1 (Fall 2016).
Context:   Found where it had been left by previous excavators near the middle of the south side of the area.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-189
PD Number:   PD 54
Dimensions:   H. (corona) 0.277, (fascia) 0.163
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   27 January 1934
Section:   ΟΕ
Bibliography:   Travlos (1971), fig. 457.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 187, figs. 113-114.
    Shoe (1936), pls. 75.20, 75.21.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:A 339
References:   Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937)
Monument: Metroon
Drawing: PD 54 (DA 4311)
Image: 1997.03.0301 (5-189)
Image: 2012.23.0348 (5-189)
Image: 2002.01.0054
Notebook: ΟΕ-1
Notebook: ΟΕ-2
Notebook Pages (5)
Card: A 257
Card: A 257