Marble Entablature Fragment

Item

Title
Marble Entablature Fragment
Inventory Number
A0407
Date Acquired
1909
Source
Magoffin
Provenance
Ostia
From Date
Roman
Description
Projecting cornice w flat top surface, below which slanting surface w badly chipped, narrow moulding, possibly bead and reel, separated by narrow concavity from egg-and-dart moulding flanked by sharp tori above plain vertical surface at r angle w which underside of cornice which flanked by plain angular mouldings, larger at ext, smaller at int; below latter bead-and-reel.
State of Preservation
Battered segment only, irregular right-angled triangle when viewed fr front. Clearly battered in secondary use, ?as pounder.
Height
6.8 cm
Length
10.5 cm
Color
Ca 10YR 8/2 (white).
Type
architecture
Material
marble

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