Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 688 | |
Title: | FINE PENTELIC MARBLE INSCRIBED SLAB | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 688 | |
Description: | Marble slab with inscription, surfaces well finished. Cutting near right end at bottom of slab , giving uncertain clue of length of block (if cutting centered, slab L. ca. 1m; if two symmetical cuttings, L. ca. 1.80m). Letters very well cut; two marks of punctuation (short curved line above and slightly right) between words of first two lines, single mark of punctuation of third line. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Three lines in Latin. | |
Material: | Fine white Pentelic marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving all original surfaces except right end. | |
Area: | Julian Basilica | |
Context: | NB79 P455 | |
Bibliography: | West 1931, Corinth 8.2, cat. 17; Corinth 20, 2003; AJA 1922, cat. 30, p. 461, fig. 11, Corinth 22 I-3 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Julian Basilica Image: bw 2278 Image: digital 2015 2249 Basket: NB79 P455 Notebook Page: NB 79, spread 33 (pp. 454 - 455) |