Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | A 466 | |
Title: | TUSCAN CAPITAL | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | A | |
Object Number: | 466 | |
Description: | Bottom part, ca. 0.05 m. cut away, eliminating necking moulding. Bottom surface rough dressed as later recutting; very shallow empolion cutting of same workmanship with diameter of ca. 0.05 m. and depth of 0.023 m. Bottom diameter of capital 0.20 m. Drill hole within embolion of bottom surface modern. This capital is associated with Temple D. Except for the trimmed necking it is similar to, but not published with, the second Tuscan capital, A 467. See Corinth I, part iii, fig. 2, p. 10; also pl. 6,2. | |
Material: | White marble with micaceous veins. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Most of abacus preserved on one face, 21 cm. of second face, two faces of abacus broken away. Top of surface claw hammered, margins at edges, no embolion, no clamp, no dowel cuttings. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. of capital 0.306 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | W. max. of abacus 0.46. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: bw 1964 015 20 Image: bw 1964 015 21 Image: digital 2020 1397 |