Inventory Number: | A 701 | |
Section Number: | Ε 493 | |
Title: | Sima and Akroterion Base Fragment | |
Category: | Architecture Marble | |
Description: | Corner sima, cut in one piece with the extremities of both the horizontal and raking sima. The sinking for the statue plinth has a curved outline. Beside the main sinking are two drilled hole perhaps intended for support of attributes, etc. Within the main plinth cutting is another rough-picked rectangular cutting, as for an irregular tenon, sinking to an additional depth of ca. 0.02m., cf. Hesperia 9 (1940) p. 37. The sima is of cyma reversa profile with at narrow fillet at the top. On the horizontal sima is a trace of a lion's head spout and on the raking sima of a painted palmette. Excellent workmanship. Pentelic marble. For other fragments of the same series of raking sima, see A 394 and A 439, for lion's heads, see A 272. These pieces probably all belong to the rebuilt 5th century building. Assigned to either the Temple of Ares or the Temple of Hephaistos. | |
Context: | From a marble pile at the N.E. corner of the Hellenistic Metroon. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 9-31, XIX-82, 86-109 | |
PD Number: | PD 608, PD 1857 | |
Dimensions: | H. (sima) 0.238; D. (sinking for the statue plinth) 0.06, (drilled holes) 0.015; W. (rectangular cutting) 0.055; P.L. (rectangular cutting) 0.093 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | 11 March 1937 | |
Section: | Ε | |
Grid: | I 8 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 690, fig. 8; p. 723, n. 46. | |
Camp (2007), p. 59, fig. 72. | ||
AJA 80 (1976), pp. 232, 234, 237, 238, 240, pls. 39, 40, ill. 7. | ||
AJA 78 (1974), pp. 224, 236, nn. 31, 47. | ||
Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 112 ff. | ||
Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 3, 36, n. 9, fig. 19. | ||
Published Type: | Hesperia 9 (1940) p. 37. | |
A 272 | ||
A 394 | ||
A 439 | ||
References: | Publication: Hesperia 9 (1940) Publication: Hesperia 87 (2018) Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941) Monument: Temple of Ares Monument: Temple of Hephaistos Drawing: PD 608 (DA 13086) Drawing: PD 1857 (DA 4268) Drawing: PD 1857 (DA 4269) Images (9) Notebook: Ε-5 Notebook Page: Ε-5-81 (pp. 929-930) Card: A 701 Card: A 701 |