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| Torus with fillet above, probably of apophyge.
Broken at sides and top.
Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. Late Roman Wall west of Stoa of Attalos. 4089 Leica PD 1178 ... April 1949 |
| Cuttings in under side for two channel dowels placed on radii alternating with dowels in top of base; dowels centered 0.20m. in from periphery.
From Stoa of Attalos.
Removed from poros bedding below base ... 5 August 1955 ... Cuttings in under side for two channel dowels placed on radii alternating with dowels in top of base; dowels centered 0.20m. in from periphery.
... Removed from poros bedding below base were two dowels and one clamp inventoried as IL 1378, IL 1379 and IL 1380 ... Found in situ in first position from south in inner colonnade; removed by engineers after repeated discussion in the course of which it was decided that the ancient base, cracked and faulty, should be replaced with a new base to carry the weight of the new column. |
| A small fragment of the torus missing; minor chips; otherwise intact.
The base consists of a lower member, on which rests a torus, cut from the same block. The middle section of the torus is worked horizontally ... 11 August 1949 ... A small fragment of the torus missing; minor chips; otherwise intact.
The base consists of a lower member, on which rests a torus, cut from the same block. ... Built into north wall of Predecessor of Square Building, resting on Poros wall crown, A 1975 (ΣΑ 1732). |
Bottom is marked off by two incised circles inside of which is inscribed a single "A".
Purple-brown glaze.
Yellow-brown clay.
Type XXVIII of Corinth collection. On poros blocks. Leica ... 14 May 1935 |
| Two joining fragments of interior course. Top, front and right end preserved, broken on all other sides. Right end had anathyrosis at obtuse angle to face, forming an interior corner. Crowning molding ... April 1949 ... Crowning molding is cyma reversa with projecting base fillet. On top surface, a rebate. ... Stoa Poikile series.
Poros. |
Broken at both ends, behind and below, most of the corona missing. From a horizontal geison. The top of the corona slopes gently and is stuccoed. The bearing surface of the top of the block is separated ... 28 May 1937 ... Broken at both ends, behind and below, most of the corona missing. From a horizontal geison. ... Poros ... Removed from the concrete of a monument base to the east of the south wing of the Stoa of Zeus. |
| Inscribed statue base with dedication.
Besides the large piece of the long face, many small fragments were found built into the wall of the modern drain, including one bit with the letters "M H". One fragment ... Second quarter of 4th. century B.C ... It therefore seems that the base must have occupied the interior corner of a room.
The portions found would have served as the facing for a poros core, and over both core and facing would have been laid a plinth, to serve as the statue base proper.
The facing block for the base of a statue (or group) dedicated to Demeter and Kore; and bearing the signature of Praxiteles.
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| Inscribed statue base.
About the three exposed sides a band was left undressed around the bottom, and this projects ca. 0.025m. beyond the finished face above. This upper face would seem originally to ... Ca. 485 B.C ... Inscribed statue base.
About the three exposed sides a band was left undressed around the bottom, and this projects ca. 0.025m. beyond the finished face above. ... Along every edge, however, a band (0.025-0.03m.) was left smooth dressed.
... It was first picked fairly smooth, and then a band of drafting was run striking its edges.
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