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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 1105 | | Title: | | MARBLE ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Object Number: | | 1105 | | Description: | | Architectural element; orientation, identification uncertain. Block with 3 exterior faces: 2 adjacent, set vertically, worked smooth, fine oblique rasp marks; small portion of third face, adjacent to face 2, worked smooth, flares out at 22 degrees from the vertical to form obtuse angle. Bottom of block 0.12m, widening to 0.134 at 0.04 from preserved bottom. Face 2 not strictly vertical; slightly concaved profile. Large, deep cutting preserved. Opening from face 1, set in 0.044 (bottom) - 0.0465 (top) from face 2. Not quite vertical, cuts in more deeply at bottom: p. D. 0.027, p. W. 0.078, p.L. 0.065. When two outer faces of block set vertical, the floor of cutting slopes down 0.014 from face 1 towards oblique face 3 and 0.018 from face 2 towards missing face 4. Its floor roughly picked with point, its one vertical face worked more smoothly. Narrow band (W. 0.02), along edge of face 1, picked deeper than rest of floor, also slopes towards missing face 4. Floor of cutting for a tenon, two sides of which are preserved, with edges for missing other two sides. Centrally positioned 0.057 between faces 1 and 3 and 0.043 from face 2, D. 0.043, W. 0.013 x 0.023. Remnants of bronze on floor. When outer faces of block set vertically, tenon is not vertical but tilts slightly towards missing face 4. Series of point marks on face 1 including two forming curving lines, 0.023 apart, may be later adjustment. | | Material: | | Moderately fine-crystalled white marble. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving parts of three sides, broken on fourth side, bottom, and top. | | Area: | | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | | Context: | | NB280 B2 P61 | | | | NB280 B2 P139 | | | | NB280 B4 P134 | | | | NB280 B3 P194 | | | | NB280 B1 P124, LOT 2107 | | | | LOT 2107 | | Site: | | Acrocorinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
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