Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE13 (Ionic Order)

Date

late 5th/early 6th century AD

Materials

Local (Marble)

Current location

Aphrodisias, Place of Palms - re-erected

State of preservation

Complete capital, with a portion of unfluted column shaft preserved below; slight damage to the abacus and volutes.

Dimensions

Measurements are unavailable due to its position as currently re-erected in the South Stoa on the twenty-third restored column from the East Gate.

Description

Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart pattern across each echinus consists of two eggs and one dart; a moulded border delineates the eggs and the darts point upward. Volutes turn two and a half times. Scale-like leaf pattern on the bolster, in the manner of SE2c, SE3c, SE5c–SE7c, SE12c, SE15c, SE17c and SE18c. Balteus left unfinished on one side and incomplete on the other.

Found within the area of South Stoa near the northwest section of the theatre hill retaining wall. See Aphrodisias Excavation Notebook 271: PortTib S. I-85, Find M55, p. 28. 30. 33.

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.