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)
Type
architecture
Material
marble