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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.211
Title
Doric Capital
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
2nd-1st century BCE
Period
Hellenistic period, Late
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble, seemingly from Asia Minor
Dimensions
actual: 19 x 47.5 x 47.5 cm (7 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 18 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.211
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
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Doric Capital

Surfaces chipped and abraded.

The heavy abacus and the flattened but broad echinus, terminating in two rolled fillet moldings, all suggest this capital belonged to a late Hellenistic, early imperial building like those in the agora at Assos (Robertson, 1969, pp. 158-160). The gate of Athena Archegetis, or western propylon of the Roman Agora in Athens, has the Athenian version of this capital, where, however, in the traditions of the fifth century B.C., the start of the fluted column is preserved as part of the capital (Travlos, 1971, pp. 32-33, figs. 40, 41).

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 95, no. 82

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