Marble Entablature Fragment

Title: Marble Entablature Fragment
Inventory Number: A0407
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Ostia
From Date: Roman
Description: Projecting cornice w flat top surface, below which slanting surface w badly chipped, narrow moulding, possibly bead and reel, separated by narrow concavity from egg-and-dart moulding flanked by sharp tori above plain vertical surface at r angle w which underside of cornice which flanked by plain angular mouldings, larger at ext, smaller at int; below latter bead-and-reel.
State of Preservation: Battered segment only, irregular right-angled triangle when viewed fr front. Clearly battered in secondary use, ?as pounder.
Height: 6.8 cm
Length: 10.5 cm
Color: Ca 10YR 8/2 (white).
Type: architecture
Material: marble