Detail

Component type

Ionic Capital

Order

II.Aph.2.SE6 (Ionic Order)

Date

late 5th/early 6th century AD

Materials

Local (Marble)

Technique

Carved from re-used materials.

Current location

Aphrodisias, Place of Palms - re-erected

State of preservation

Complete capital; damage to the abacus and volutes. Cut from a reused block, as demonstrated by two offset perpendicular lewis holes and setting line cut into the top of the block. Currently re-erected in the South Stoa on the sixth restored column from the East Gate; measurements unavailable.

Dimensions

Measurements not available due to position as re-erected.

Description

Abacus undecorated. Egg and dart motif on each echinus consists of three eggs and two upward-pointing darts with bead moulding carved in sunken relief below; a slight moulded border delineates the eggs. Volutes turn three times. Scale-like leaf pattern on bolsters, similar to SE2c, SE3c, SE5c, SE7c, SE12c, SE13c, SE15c, SE17c and SE18c. Balteus consists of three thin bands of astragal moulding.

Found within the area of South Stoa near East Gate. For more, see Aphrodisias Excavation Notebook 279: PortTib SE I-86, Bk 2, p. 12. 13. 18.

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.