| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | I 726 | |
| Title: | WHITE MARBLE INSCRIPTION | |
| Category Code: | I | |
| Object Number: | 726 | |
| Old Number: | I-1235C (number lapsed), I-1235D (number lapsed), I-1235E (number lapsed), I-1235F (number lapsed), I-1235J (number lapsed) | |
| Related Objects: | I-1235A, I-1235K, I-1235I | |
| Description: | Marble inscription, rear face roughly worked. Letters fairly well cut. Belongs with I-1235I (Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 314A), uninventoried frgt. (Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 314B), I-1235K (Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 314D), and I-1235A (Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 314E). | |
| Decoration: | Red paint in letters. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Lines 2-6 in Latin: 2nd: HIC[-]R.A[-] 3rd: COLONIAE.LAVD[i.iuliae.cor]INTH[iensi.] 4th: [-]LAM.ET.STAT[-]GN[-] 5th: [euryc]LIS.HER[c]VLAN[i-].SIGN.. 6th: [-]MQVE.OR[navit-] | |
| Material: | White marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Six joining frgts., preserving part of original left and bottom edges. Some red paint in letters preserved. | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Augustan, according to Corinth 8.3 | |
| Area: | Forum southeast | |
| Context: | NB139 P35 | |
| NB139 P31 | ||
| NB139 P34 | ||
| NB81 P303 | ||
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003; Kent 1966, Corinth 8.3, cat. 314C; West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 5; AJA 1922, #64, p. 474f, fig. 23 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southeast Image: bw 1975b Image: bw 7318 Image: digital 2015 2252 Baskets (4) Notebook Page: NB 81, spread 61 (pp. 302 - 303) |
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