Doric Capital
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| Artist | |
| Name | Unknown |
| Basic Info | |
| Period | Hellenistic period, Late |
| Century | 2nd-1st century BCE |
| Culture | Greek |
| Dimensions | actual: 19 x 47.5 x 47.5 cm (7 1/2 x 18 11/16 x 18 11/16 in.) |
| Harvard Museum | |
| Department | Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics |
| Division | Asian and Mediterranean Art |
| Contact | am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu |
Context
82 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
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University