| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1999 6 | |
| Title: | MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL: ECHINUS | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 6 | |
| Description: | Echinus with roughly picked resting surface, projecting beyond edge of echinus. Echinus decorated with egg-dart: eggs deeply cut, pointed tip, dart is triangular with sharp axial rib. Ridge outlining lt. egg not sharply articulated at lt. break, possibly from lt. edge of echinus ? Poss. fine drill used to outline eggs. Larger than series of A-1999-001,-002 etc. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble with micaceous veins. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving resting surface, probably full profile of echinus with parts of two eggs, one dart. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.07 (echinus) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.083 L00.134 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman? Context 10th c. | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB913 B49 P117 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1999 045 17a Basket: NB913 B49 P117 |
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