| Inventory Number: | A 5286 | |
| Section Number: | ΒΘ 405 | |
| Title: | Marble Stylobate Block | |
| Category: | Architecture Marble | |
| Description: | Complete block except for chips. Rebate on lower front face. The visible (left) end treated with anathyrosis - the interior rough - picked in parallel grooves using a point. Cutting for a dowel at bottom. Elsewhere surfaces are finished with a claw chisel and a rasp. Very heavy footwear (0.05-0.06) on both front and back edges. Pentelic marble. | |
| Notes: | Resting on fill at the upper level of the Byzantine walls. Catalogued July 15, 2020. | |
| Context: | Found embedded upside down in the South Scarp of ΒΘ east. | |
| Notebook Page: | 4072 | |
| PD Number: | PD 3087, PD 3090 | |
| Dimensions: | L. (lateral) 0.99; W. 0.091; H. 0.255, (rebate) 0.05; D. (rebate) 0.011 | |
| Date: | 2014 | |
| Section: | ΒΘ | |
| Grid: | L/3,4-3/18 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 48, pp. 630-631, fig. 37. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020) Drawing: PD 3090 (DA 13440) Image: 2021.01.0005 Image: 2017.09.0076 Card: A 5286 |