Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE12 (Ionic Order)

Date

late 5th/early 6th century AD

Materials

Aphrodisian blue (Marble)

Current location

Aphrodisias, Place of Palms, South Stoa block field

State of preservation

Complete capital in blue-grey marble, with a portion of fluted column drum preserved below; little damage to abacus and volutes.

Dimensions

H (total): [46.0] | H (from bottom of Vol to top of Ab): 24.8 | W: 68.5 | D: 65.7 | LowDia: 52.6 | AbH: 5.5 | AbW: 61.5 | AbD: 62 | EchH: 13.5, 14.5 | VolW: 18.0, 18.5 | VolH: 18.5, 19.3 | DistVol: 31.5 | DistEyes: 49.4 | BolL: 60.3 | BalW: 3.7

Description

Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart pattern across echinus; one side consists of three eggs and two darts with bead and reel below, on the other side a single large egg with two darts; a moulded border delineates the eggs and the darts point upward. Volutes turn three to four times. Scale-like leaf pattern on the bolster, in the manner of SE2c, SE3c, SE5c–SE7c, SE13c, SE15c, SE17c and SE18c. Balteus consists of three flat bands of astragal moulding, similar to SE3c–SE5c and SE7c.

Bibliography

Kidd, A.B. 2018. “The Ionic Capitals from the South Stoa of Aphrodisias’ Urban Park: A Case Study of Urban Design in Late Antiquity.” Istanbuler Mitteilungen 68: 209-244.