Agora Object: A 279
Inventory Number:   A 279
Section Number:   Β 183
Title:   Capital Fragment: Ionic
Category:   Architecture Marble
Description:   Fragment of echinus of Ionic capital, with painted egg and dart on the convex surface of the molding. Preserved, the lower part of a dart and parts of the eggs adjacent. The resting surface dressed with toothed chisel.
From building A of section Z (?).
Cf. ceiling beam fragments with similar painted pattern, A 400 (Z 992).
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 661 (ΜΜ 338), same series ?, and A 991 (Β 2084).
ADDENDA Perhaps not from building A.
Context:   From late pithos.
Negatives:   Leica
PD Number:   PD 2404, PD 2708
Dimensions:   P.W. (face at bottom) 0.068
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   1 March 1934
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:9/Α
Bibliography:   Hesperia 65 (1996), pp. 129, 151, no. 10, figs. 2, 15, pl. 38.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 147.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:A 400
    Agora:Object:A 661
    Agora:Object:A 991
References:   Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937)
Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996)
Drawing: PD 2404 (DA 3119)
Drawing: PD 2708 (DA 3157)
Notebook: Β-2
Notebook: Ζ-7
Notebook Page: Β-2-8 (pp. 203-204)
Notebook Page: Ζ-7-85 (pp. 1329-1330)
Card: A 279