1942.211: Doric Capital
Architectural ElementsIdentification 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
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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