Inventory Number: | A 3571 | |
Section Number: | ΚΤΛ 555 | |
Title: | Frieze Block | |
Category: | Architecture Poros | |
Description: | Both ends and top cut away. Face of metope shows toothed chisel, face of triglyph finished with drove; back shows long vertical striations of a single point. Undercutting at middle of back for a shift bar. Block originally comprised three triglyphs and two metopes and was cantilevered over a column. From an intermediary use are three small dowel holes in the original underside toward one edge, spaced 0.68m and 0.64m. From Square Peristyle. Poros. | |
Notes: | Inventory number not written on block. | |
Context: | Reused in south outer wall of Roman Agora between fountain and S.W. corner of the building. This, A 3569 and A 3570 stand upright on the toichobate imbedded in a wall made of miscellaneous ancient blocks supplemented with field stones, broken tiles and coarse mortar. | |
Negatives: | 84-512, 84-513 | |
Dimensions: | P.L. 1.98; P.H. 0.52; Th. (triglyph) 0.45, (metope) 0.41; W. (triglyph) 0.40, (metope) 0.602, (dowel holes) 0.03; L. (resting surface) 1.21, (dowel holes) 0.03 | |
Material: | Poros | |
Date: | 6 July 1966 | |
Section: | ΚΤΛ | |
Bibliography: | Agora XXVII, no. Arch41, pp. 59, 60, 71, 122, ill. 20, pl. 27 a, c. | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXVII Monument: Square Peristyle Drawing: PD 1515 (DA 256) Images (6) Card: A 3571 Card: A 3571 |