| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | A 2001 1 | |
| Title: | LIMESTONE ANTA CAPITAL | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | A | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Anta capital with part of wall against which it abutted at lt. Capital consists of a quarter round, fillet, hawksbeak with simple concave profile in lower half, crowning fascia. Top surface irregularly worked with narrow band of claw along edge, broad band of flat chisel strokes, then deeply struck rows of claw (blade L. 0.04). Mouldings finely worked, wall surface roughly worked with claw. | |
| Decoration: | Thick layer of white lime plaster preserved on the hawksbeak, obscuring its concave profile. | |
| Material: | Oolitic limestone. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving capital: part of one face and wall to which it attached; some plaster. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.025 (fascia) H00.025 (hawksbeak) H00.020 (quarter round | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.085 L00.163 W00.089 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Context: | NB938 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2001 020 15 Basket: NB938 |
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