| Inventory Number: | S 3454 | |
| Section Number: | ΚΤΛ 821 | |
| Title: | Akanthos Stele of Menestratides: Inscribed | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Broken off below. Sides are smooth with no traces of tool marks. Back rough-picked. Separating the shaft and anthemion is an inscribed fascia with a beveled soffit: Carved in moderate relief in a shallow shell is a split palmette composed of two six-leaved half-palmettes with a four-petaled flower between them, which spring, along with their volutes, from thick cauliculae. The leaves of the palmette are broad with even spacing between each one. Ten-leaved half-palmettes with volutes flank the central split palmette, springing from the same akanthos calyx. Fine grained white marble with mica. | |
| Context: | Among sepulchral marbles in garden west of Hephaisteion. | |
| Negatives: | 96-13-10(11,12) | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 1.16; Lett. H. 0.015-0.018; Th. 0.18; W. 0.45 | |
| Date: | 13 December 1994 | |
| Section: | ΚΤΛ | |
| Bibliography: | Agora XXXV, no. 160, pl. 48. | |
| References: | Publication: Agora XXXV Image: 2011.05.0429 Image: 2012.82.0236 (96-13-10) Card: S 3454 |
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