Inventory Number: | A 2974 | |
Section Number: | Ι 1646 | |
Title: | Statue Base | |
Category: | Architecture Marble | |
Description: | a) Broken in many pieces and only about half preserved. Simple moldings at top and bottom. Drums smoothly finished; top dressed with claw. Both top and sides fresh and unweathered. Fine, precise work. b) Small additional fragment. Cf. notebook p. 3632: "The base had been reused and in its second period had been inverted and a rectangular socket cut in its new top surface" (H.A.T). Lightly clouded gray marble, probably Hymettian (emits odor when struck). Completely restored in plaster. | |
Notes: | See notebook p. 3262 for sketch of profile of fragment b). Found at O/7-8/3 (Fall 2016). | |
Context: | a) From tower of Late Roman Fortification at S.W. corner of Library of Pantainos; from lowest course of south wall of tower together with A 2969, A 2970, A 2971, A 2972 and A 2973, and fragments A 2891 and A 2892. b) Found among marbles from Late Roman Fortification. | |
Notebook Page: | 3206, 3262 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 82-366, 82-398 | |
PD Number: | PD 2366, PD 1130 | |
Dimensions: | H. a) 0.56; Diam. a) (at bottom) 1.294; D. a) (socket in top) 0.09-0.12; Max. Dim. 0.21; P.H. 0.105 | |
Material: | Marble | |
Date: | 1959, May 1964 | |
Section: | Ι | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 149 (noted). | |
Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 357-358, fig. 9. | ||
References: | Publication: Hesperia 29 (1960) Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966) Drawing: PD 1130 (DA 3320) Drawing: PD 1130 (DA 3321) Drawing: PD 2366 (DA 3530) Image: 2012.56.0381 (82-366) Image: 2012.56.0413 (82-398) Image: 1997.02.0230 (83-366) Card: A 2974 |