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| The six upper drums are preserved lettered ΑΑ-ΒΒ, etc.
One of the series A 3008 - A 3011 and A 2987 and A 2988. With this shaft is to be associated the capital A 2987.
White, strongly laminated marble ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Fragment from the edge of the volute. The spiral is a flat band. Careful work.
Pentelic marble. From late Roman fill. Leica, 90-23-8 PD 2403, PD 2712 ... April 1950 |
| One drum only, viz. third from top, with the letter Δ on under side. Top drum exists but has no letters.
Apparently from the late 5th c. B.C., but reused in the Roman period before being employed in the ... 5th c. B.C. |
| The first, second, third and sixth drums from the top survive and may be recognized from the letters ΑΑΑΑ, etc. The sixth was here the bottom drum.
One of the series A 3008 - A 3011 and A 2987 and A 2988 ... 1 September 1959 |
| Complete except for most of crown molding. Crown is cavetto-crowned ovolo. Lower and upper fascia. A dowel and a clamp cutting on top surface. Very granular soft yellow poros, perhaps Aeginetian.
Another ... 30 July 1970 |
| The second, fifth and seventh drums from the top survive, the seventh marked ΗΗΗ, being the bottom drum. The top drum also survives but retains no letter and so cannot be assigned with certainty.
One of ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Part of an edge preserved, otherwise broken.
Some of the petals of the palmette of an antefix.
Coarse pink to buff clay. Finished Late Roman Fill in S.W. corner of section. Leica ... 20 April 1938 |
| Fragment a) comes from the base of the shaft; fragment b) from the top, preserving about one third of the periphery.
Excellent workmanship.
From Propylon of Bouleuterion.
Pentelic marble. Found in late ... 1933 |
| Taenia all broken away; left end preserved. Right end seems to have been cut back a few centimeters (the clamp cutting is only 0.06m. as compared with 0.13m. at the other end). Cuttings for Π-clamp at ... 1959 |
| Corner block. Dimensions fully preserved. Top surface worked with tooth chisel; lewis hole. At the back, the upper left corner has a cutting, apparently to receive a wooden beam. Its width continues across ... 17 May 1933 |
| Broken at the back and chipped at the sides. The edges are scalloped; the front plain, as if prepared for color, of which however no trace remains.
Parian marble.
ADDENDA Central lines of metals and traces ... 30 March 1934 |
| Much worn by traffic in its present position. From same series as A 2987, with which it corresponds in material, measurements and workmanship.
Marble cloudy gray in color with pronounced lamination. Excellent ... 1959 |
| Parts of three flutes preserved. Broken on all sides save flutes. Fine white stucco in two flutes, the other broken on the surface.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. Late Roman Wall west of Stoa of Attalos ... April 1949 |
| One end is preserved, though slightly battered. At the other end the tile has been rudely cut off, probably somewhere near the middle. The underside is rough-picked, with a sort of swelling near the original ... 18 April 1934 |
| Top drum, without flutes. On both the top and bottom the smooth dressed original outer joint surface stands out from the roughly reworked inner area. On the top a carefully cut mason's mark. Empolion cutting ... 3 June 1964 |
Bottom rough; otherwise broken. Rather coarse yellowish clay.
Stamped: 'Mother of the Gods'.
Metroon series.
Cf. Negative number XXXIV-23. In late Roman fill, above level of strosis. Leica ... 2 April 1934 |
| A single fragment preserves the tips of two petals of a palmette, and most of a third. Broken at right; finished surface below. A round smooth dowel hole goes through the fragment lengthwise; traces of ... 3 July 1947 |
Fragment of rain tile; broken all around.
Coarse clay, buff inside, yellow on surface.
Mother of the Gods series; the stamp is faint.
South of Building C; disturbed earth round late Roman terracotta ... 14 May 1938 |
Top only preserved, finished with diagonal chisel strokes. Broken on all other sides. On one side, the break goes through the end of a dowel hole.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. Late Roman Wall west of Stoa ... April 1949 |
Broken all around. Rather coarse yellowish clay. Traces of light yellow slip on bottom.
Stamped: Mother of the Gods.
Metroon series. In late Roman fill, above level of strosis. Leica ... 2 April 1934 |
Broken above and at the left, and the face chipped at the left, but nearly the full width preserved, with the start of the cover tile.
Volute and tendrils relief decoration.
Along the lower edge of the ... 10 October 1947 |
The antefix is complete save minor chips; two joining fragments give part of the cover tile.
Relief palmette with diamond heart; volutes below. The signature in relief letters along the bottom of the face: ... 8 October 1947 |
| Broken at right end, otherwise fresh. In top an original cutting for a double T-clamp to join this with the next backer; a replacement in the form of a cutting for a Π-clamp; a cutting for a Π-clamp 0.21m ... August 1959 |
Front only preserved, tooth chiseled.
Two nail holes set 0.05m. apart, the deepest one broken through by present broken edge of block.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. Late Roman Wall west of Stoa of Attalos ... April 1949 |
One surface preserved, finished with medium chisel, fairly smooth. At 0.10m. back from this surface is the end of a dowel (?) hole.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. Late Roman Wall west of Stoa of Attalos ... April 1949 |
| Front face complete except for lower right hand corner. Cover tile broken off of the back.
Flame palmette with a rosette in the center, acanthus leaves at base; two curled tendrils on twisted stalks from ... 22 March 1950 |
| Top and right end preserved. Fine work, probably of 5th c. B.C.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 2968. From demolition of tower of Late Roman Fortification at S.W. corner of the Library of Pantainos. 3206 Leica, ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Taenia, regula with three guttae, the first one broken away, and a hawk's beak crowning the taenia. Red on taenia, blue on regula. Setting line on top 0.077m. from front of beak.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros ... April 1949 |
| Four non-joining fragments, not necessarily from the same capital.
a) Preserves the lower edge of the abacus and the upper edge of the echinus.
b) Show the tops of flutes and one annulet.
c) Tops of flutes ... 1936 |
Broken away above (slightly) and below.
An antefix (?) in the form of a human mask, broken away below the eyes, with two long rows of curls across the forehead; eyes and eyebrows exaggeratedly large.
Rather ... 16 March 1936 |
| Corner. Mended from several pieces.
Plain antefix. Broken below and at left. The lion's head is in excellent state of preservation. Traces of red on mane. Brown red clay with bits in it.
From Heliaia ... 4 May 1953 |
| Top half of block broken off; elsewhere all faces preserved.
A regulation orthostate with carefully worked anathyrosis at the ends. A dowel cutting at each junction of the bottom and sides. The bottom ... 10 March 1937 |
| From the extreme lower end of a raking cornice, the pedimental slope being ca 0.155m. at 0.58m. length. The width of the corona and the crowning hawk's beak remain. At the lower tip a cutting for a dowel ... 1959 |
| Broken at top and back.
Soft yellow poros with very smooth sawn front surface; slightly less smooth back and bottom. Anathyrosis joint surface at side. Same series as A 1267 (Η' 907). Altar of Pitt?
Poros ... July 1947 |
About one half the tile remains, preserving its full width but neither end.
A heavy flat tegula with high side flanges.
Stamped in middle of upper surface.
Gritty buff clay.
In late Roman filling on ... 11 May 1937 |
Two joining fragments preserve most of the antefix and the start of the cover tile. Concave-petalled palmette, with a small palmette heart; beneath, head of Athena Parthenos; volutes to either side.
Coarse ... 8 October 1947 |
| Painted pattern of fascia of A 1710 (ΣΑ 2165) was transferred to mortar when this pieces were built into the Late Roman wall. In excavation, A 1710 (ΣΑ 2165) came away from mortar against which it lay, ... April 1949 |
| Much restored in cement. Upper and lower tori. Good crisp work.
The diameter is appropriate to the Ionic column drums found in the same tower, together with the painted capitals A 2972 and A 2973.
Pentelic ... June 1959 |
Top surface only preserved, finished with tooth chisel; broken on all other sides. On broken face, which was probably front, remains of a nail hole set 0.075m. from the top.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros ... April 1949 |
| Marble cloudy gray in color, with pronounced lamination.
Excellent work. Found at Q/5-16/3 (Fall 2016). In core of Late Roman Fortification at S.W. corner of the Library of Pantainos. Leica, 83-343, 83-345, ... 1959 |
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