block
- Museum number
- 1857,0220.2
- Description
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Marble monumental inscription; moulded frame; the stone is broken diagonally on the lower part, while part of the top right corner is also missing; rough at back and left side; smooth on right side; on top are three crampholes, presumably for supporting a statue; two large and one small channel lead to the back; seven lines of alphabetic Greek letters preserved (and traces of two more below), only the first four complete. The bloack was probably the base of, or related to, a statue of the Homeric hero Hector to whom the text refers ('the splendid protector of the Trojan land').
- Production date
- 2ndC (probably)
- Dimensions
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Height: 45.72 centimetres (greatest)
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Length: 80.01 centimetres
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Depth: 16.51 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Briefly discussed by Wilamowitz, Hermes 1930, 254.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1857,0220.2
