Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE17 (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

Fragment in blue-grey marble, with approximately half of the capital re- maining and dowel hole preserved below. Circular dowel hole in center bottom, Dia.: 3.9, D: 4.1.

Dimensions

H (total): 24.5 | H (from bottom of Vol to top of Ab): 23.4 | W: [37.4] | D: 61.6 | LowDia: 47.6 | AbH: 3.8 | AbW: - | AbD: 60.8 | EchH: 14 | VolW: 18.5, 19.6 | VolH: 18.5, 19.6 | DistVol: - | DistEyes: - | BolL: 58.5 | BalW: 3.9

Description

Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart pattern across the echinus consists of two preserved eggs and one dart (which may be reconstructed as three eggs and two darts) with bead and reel below; a moulded border delineates the eggs and the darts point upward. Volutes turn three times. Scale-like leaf pattern on bolster, similar to SE2c, SE3c, SE5c–SE7c, SE12c, SE13c, SE15c and SE18c. Balteus consists of two flat bands of astragal moulding.

Found in the pool of the urban park, reused in a post-antique wall. See Aphrodisias Excavation Notebook 567c: SAg 16.1 (Field Notebook II), p. 60. 70; Notebooks 574a: SAg 17.1 (Field Notebook & Binder Data I) and 575a: SAg 17.1 (Finds Notebook I), Find SAg.17.1.4440.M1589.

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.