Agora Object: A 4214
Inventory Number:   A 4214
Section Number:   ΡΡ 164
Title:   Column Base: Engaged
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Two joining pieces; complete except for chips.
a) Section of base for pilaster. Moldings above plinth are, from bottom: torus, scotia with projecting crowning fillet, torus. Large square empolion cutting with pour channel in top surface. Small Β on lower torus at back.
b) Section of base for the engaged column. Moldings and plinth as on a).
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   Found at T/1-13/7 (Fall 2016).
Context:   Lot 653/2. South wall of big house.
Notebook Page:   35
Negatives:   Leica
PD Number:   PD 2184
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.44, (fragment a, lower torus) ca. 0.065, (fragment a, plinth) 0.24, (fragment a, scotia and fillet) ca. 0.08, (fragment a, upper torus) ca. 0.045, b) 0.44; W. a) 0.675, b) 0.535; P.D. a) 0.77, b) 0.24; Lett. H. a) 0.011
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   10 May 1971
Section:   ΡΡ
Grid:   S-T 13
Bibliography:   Hesperia 44 (1975), p. 338, n. 11.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 44 (1975)
Drawing: PD 2184 (DA 354)
Image: 1997.11.0135 (88-15)
Image: 2012.58.1461 (88-15)
Card: A 4214
Card: A 4214