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ABA 2. Attic Base.<br />

Present loc<strong>at</strong>ion: Caputi Square, Croton.<br />

265<br />

Description: As with the previous artifact, this Attic base comes from the sea, but is never<br />

mentioned in P. Orsi’s reports, nor in the reports available in the archives <strong>of</strong> Reggio<br />

Calabria’s archaeological museum. The base is finished. The plinth supports first a torus,<br />

then a cyma is visible between two splines, surmounted by a second, thinner torus. Two<br />

corners are broken <strong>of</strong>f, and the upper surface is heavily eroded.<br />

Marble type: White Synnadic. 355<br />

Diameter: 0.57 m<br />

Height (total): 0.32 m<br />

Height (base): 0.10 m<br />

Width (base): 0.72 m; Length (base): > 0.68 m (broken)<br />

Notes: Not mentioned in Paolo Orsi’s reports.<br />

Bibliography: Pensabene 1978, 108; Pensabene 2002a, 37.<br />

355 Pensabene 1978, 108.

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