Corinth Object: A 1999 2b
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   A 1999 2b
Title:   MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   A
Year:   1999
Object Number:   2
Object Suffix:   b
Related Objects:   A-1999-002A
Description:   Ionic capital with roughly picked resting surface, echinus carved with egg-dart: eggs oval and pointed, deeply cut from surrounding frame, dart straight and sharp like a reel. Echinus covered by a half-palmette at lt., with three petals with upturned tips, separated by deep channels.
Material:   Fine-crystalled micaceous white marble.
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., small part of resting surface, echinus fr. lt. side of face: tips of corner palmette, 2 eggs. Broken above.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.062 L00.154
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB921 B12 P25
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 1999 053 04
Basket: NB921 B12 P25
Notebook Page: NB 921, spread 17 (pp. 24 - 25)