trial_description_8:
Broken at both ends. On front, left, a series of elaborate palmettes, right, two crosses under arches (?). The heads of the arches and band of raised ornament along upper edge broken away. Along the bottom, a bead and reel. On the under side a cross patée with heart shaped leaves in the angles enclosed in a circle interlocking with another circle containing a rosette. At the left end, part of a rectangular panel with a simple geometric leaf ornament. The two decorated zones separated by a resting surface for a capital. The back smoothly dressed and slightly convex; top rough-picked and with three holes, possibly from reuse (?).
Pentelic marble.
Cf. Scripou for decoration.
dimensions:
H. 0.225; P.L. 0.80; W. (at top) 0.30, (at bottom) 0.215, (resting surface) 0.19; L. (resting surface) 0.21