Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE15 (Ionic Order)

Date

late 5th/early 6th century AD

Materials

Aphrodisian white (Marble)

Technique

Carved from re-used materials.

Current location

Aphrodisias, Place of Palms, South Stoa block field

State of preservation

Complete capital in white marble, with lower portion of unfluted column shaft and one functional dowel hole. Cut from a reused block, as demonstrated by two additional dowel cuttings on either side of the bottom, one visible from the face of the capital. Circular dowel hole in center bottom, Dia.: 4; D: 4.4, square dowel holes to either side, 7.5 x 6.2, D: 4.1; 5.5 x 6, D: 4.1, and a rectangular clamp cutting 5.0 x 3.0, D: 1.6.

Dimensions

H (total): 31.6 | H (from bottom of Vol to top of Ab): 24.2 | W: 59.9 | D: 61.4 | LowDia: 50.6 | AbH: 4.6 | AbW: 60.9 | AbD: 61.4 | EchH: 11 | VolW: 19.8, 20.6 | VolH: 18.9, 19.6 | DistVol: 19.5, 20.8 | DistEyes: 38.5 | BolL: 57 | BalW: 3.8

Description

Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart pattern on each echinus consisting of one full and two half eggs and two upward-pointing darts with bead pattern below, similar to SE5c and SE18. Volutes turn three times. Scale-like leaf pattern on the bolster, similar to SE2c, SE3c, SE5c–SE7c, SE12c, SE13c, SE17c and SE18c. Balteus consists of one wide, flat band and two thinner bands of astragal moulding to either side.

Found in South Stoa near the northwest section of the theatre hill retaining wall. See Aphrodisias Excavation Notebook 271: PortTib S. I-85, Find M41, p. 28. 29.

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.