Marble Entablature Fragment

Item

Title

Marble Entablature Fragment

Inventory Number

A0242

Description

Elements from below & projecting further outward to plain top surface: slanting surface carved w leaf pattern, tips of which alternately face up and down, those facing down more complex; band of low dentils; small diagonal band of bead & reel between small tori; strongly projecting plain cornice proper w slanting crown moulding decorated w egg and dart between small tori above which two slightly broader tori.

State of Preservation

Segment probably cut for sale, with finished top and bottom surfaces and roughly perpendicular broken sides. Surfaces worn & chipped, with chunks missing from cornice at both ends, one considerably more substantial than other.

Height

12 cm

Length

35 cm

Width

17.5 cm

Color

Ca 5Y 8/1 (white)

Material