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Marble cavetto capital

Marble cavetto capital





Artist : Anonymous

Date : near VIth century B.C.

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1917)
Item 19 on 23
Greek Antiquities
Element of architecture

Area related
Attique (Greece)

Description   

This capital was part of a funerary or votive stele. It surmounted a tall shaft and supported a separately carved finial - presumably a sphinx. The cavetto capital has a more elongated shape than the earlier example exhibited nearby.
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