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Right half preserved. Face smooth finished; right end much more coarsely dressed, as though molding and surface there were a much later addition. Top surface picked evenly. Cutting for Z-clamp at right end. Bottom dressed for joint; dowel cutting 0.08m. from right edge.
Through whole height of stone at preserved left end is a cutting. Cutting for axle partly preserved at the break. Here the pulley would have been inserted. Sides and edges of the cutting have grooves and are very smooth - by and for ropes. Molding, clamp and dowel cuttings and finish of face show that stone, in its life as a pulley support, was reused. Originally from the Temple of Hephaistos?
Pentelic (?) marble.
dimensions:
H. 0.205; W. (at bottom) 0.21, (at top with molding) 0.237, (cutting at left end) 0.145; P.L. 0.50, (cutting at left end) 0.11; L. (clamp) 0.105