| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1999 2a | |
| Title: | MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | A-1999-002B | |
| Description: | Ionic capital, preserving small part of corner egg, covered by 3 petals of half-palmette, separated by deep channels, and springing from a smaller leaf; canalis framed above by bead-reel; 2 bead-reels outline volute, while a single one follows spirals of volute, ending in a small rosette; bolster carved with 3 different sets of leaves: at tip a row of large water leaves, separated by pointed plain leaf; below this a row of acanthus leaves, below which two rows of water leaves(?) with angular central rib, tied by an acanthus leaf, tip of which preserved on abacus. Abacus carved with egg-dart, eggs pointed, dart straight like the reel. Top surface worked with claw chisel for band 0.135 wide extending back from front face; thereafter worked smoothly. A faint incised line runs parallel to front face, 0.026 from edge of resting surface. Another incised line runs at rt. Angles to face at 0.226 from rt. Edge. Capital mended: a segment of edge of volute added separately, surface worked smoothly, traces of cement. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled micaceous white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Several joining frgts., preserving part of one face: right volute, edge of echinus, canalis; half of bolster on side; abacus in front and side. Small part of edge of volute missing. Small non-joining frgts., left in lot. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.201 (volute) H00.038 (abacus) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.024 L00.27 W00.286 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB921 B12 P25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1999 043 22 Image: bw 1999 043 23 Basket: NB921 B12 P25 |
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