| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 1997 3 | |
| Title: | MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL: ECHINUS | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Description: | Ionic captial with flat resting surface, finely picked with fine point; slightly convex echinus, and outline of volute to right. Echinus carved with egg-dart, eggs deeply cut and pointed with sharp outlining ridge, pointed darts with central spine. Two petals of corner palmette with deeply cut and widely separated, curling petals. Eggs outlined with drill, deep point marks in corners. | |
| Material: | Extremely dense gray-white marble, Proconnesian (?) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving edge of resting surface, 1 1/2 eggs of echinus, break for volute, part of corner palmette. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.092 L00.186 T00.032 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | NB907 P19 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: bw 1997 031 15 Basket: NB907 P19 |
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