capital
- Museum number
- 1902,1002.58
- Description
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Part of a Corinthian capital. A central rectangular projection is entirely covered by an acanthus leaf with a central drooping lobe above a rib; indistinct leaves appear in the re-entrants with indistinct edges of inner volutes, and another leaf rises towards the right under the usual edge to an outer volute. The abacus has clumsily carved mouldings.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16.50 centimetres
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 26.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
This piece appears unevenly cut down from a capital element like that in BM 1880.357 and, if not damaged in later times, may have been reused.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Light grey schist, broken, exfoliated and with some soil incrustation.
2.Top roughly flat with some chisel grooves and with one deep and large mortise in centre and a smaller mortise at left side; both sides roughly flat, right side sloping inwards towards back; bottom irregularly flat with chisel grooves at curved outline in front.
3.Back roughly flat but of uneven depth, sloping inwards to right side and with an opening, now filled with a wooden plug, to the large central mortise at top.
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1902,1002.58
