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[June 21, 1915]. English Translation.
ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOPRITEDEZA
OF CALABRIA
(Provinces of Rhegium, Catanzaro and Consentia)
TEMPORARY BRACH OF SYRACUSE
. 2097
SUBJECT: Croton – Marble blocks discovered in Punta Scifo
. 14 Drawings in attachment, stored in the drawings’ archive
Archaeological Superintendent Esq.
For Calabria
Syracuse
Syracuse, June 21, 1915
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Records Po. [Paolo Orsi]
I enclose with this report the schematic drawings of the marble blocks found in Punta
Schifo [sic] in Croton and deposited on the dock currently under construction in that city,
where I went myself following Your order.
The column-type X, drawn on the sheet A, has 11 similar specimens, 5 of which are
extremely damaged, one shattered in three pieces and one shortened lengthwise, almost in
the middle and deeply eroded. There is another column similar to column-type Y, drawn
on the same sheet, but with that kind of seal destroyed.
Both columns have some inscriptions, which are drawn on sheet O.
There are 5 bases identical in size and marble quality to the base drawn on sheet B,
some of them deeply encrusted.
There is only one type of lead seal driven in several blocks or columns. (See
drawing and section on sheet C)
The huge block (sheet G) has two levels on the upper side; the highest does not
follow the entire width of the block [and runs] with the upper external edge of the long
side. The portion of the lower side comprised between the upper level and the edge joins it
with a slight curvature ending on the short side where the upper edge is only 8 cm away.
I could not draw a view of block A (sheet H) both because it is hidden among other
blocks, and because has many superimposed levels. The inscription of block O, drawn on
the same sheet and on sheet H I is found on sheet O where is also reproduced a portion of
the inscription of block S (sheets L – I) read through some small empty spaces left among
the superimposed blocks.
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