Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE5 (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

Complete capital in white marble, with a portion of the unfluted column drum shaft and dowel hole preserved below.

Dimensions

H (total): 48.5 | H (from bottom of Vol to top of Ab): 22 | W: 58.9 | D: 67.3 | LowDia: 54.3 | AbH: 4.3 | AbW: 59.4 | AbD: 60.4 | EchH: 13.5 | VolW: 18.5 | VolH: 17.7 | DistVol: 25 | DistEyes: 44 | BolL: 59.9 | BalW: 4.2

Description

Complete capital in white marble, with a portion of the unfluted column drum shaft and dowel hole preserved below. Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart motif on each echinus consists of three eggs and two upward-pointing darts with bead pattern below, similar to SE15c and SE18c; some evidence for incompletion of motif on one face. Volutes turn three times. Scale-like leaf pattern on bolsters, similar to SE2c, SE3c, SE6c, SE7c, SE12c, SE13c, SE15c, SE17c, and SE18c. Balteus consists of three flat bands of astragal moulding, like SE3c, SE4c, 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.