Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE4 (Ionic Order)

Date

late 5th/early 6th century AD

Materials

Aphrodisian white (Marble)

Current location

Aphrodisias, Place of Palms, South Stoa block field

State of preservation

A portion of fluted column drum shaft and lead dowel preserved below; some damage to volutes and echinus.

Dimensions

H (total): 51.8 | H (from bottom of Vol to top of Ab): 26.5 | W: 63.9 | D: 64.5 | LowDia: 49.6 | AbH: 5 | AbW: 62.1 | AbD: 61.7 | EchH: 14.8 | VolW: 17.6 | VolH: 21.5 | DistVol: 23 | DistEyes: 42.4 | BolL: 59.2 | BalW: 6.4

Circular dowel hole in centre bottom: Dia.: 5.1; preserved lead dowel 2.3 x 2.3, preserved L: 3.5.

Description

Complete capital in white marble. Abacus undecorated. One face features a single, six-petaled rosette within a banded circle that fills the height of the echinus in raised relief on a flattened ovolo moulding. Below, a broad band encircles the uppermost portion of the column shaft. To either side of the rosette are small laurels. The other face features an egg and dart motif consisting of two eggs and three darts with bead moulding and flat band below; a moulded border delineates the eggs and the darts point upward. Volutes turn three times. Concave leaf pattern on bolsters, similar to SE1c and one side of SE16c; hints of the scale-like leaf pattern noted on SE2c, SE3c, SE5c–SE7c, SE12c, SE13c, SE15c, SE17c, and SE18c on the underside closest to one of the volutes. Balteus consists of three plain bands of astragal moulding, like SE3c, SE5c, SE7c and SE12c.

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.