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- 62
- Strut, fragment
- 3rd c. AD?
- Densely grained white marble (Italian) with no streaking.
- Ht. l. 4 cm max., w. 2.5 x 2 cm.
- Irregularly broken at both ends, partially encrusted, still smooth and, where not patched with encrustation, quite clean; original high polish lost.
- This small statuary strut fragment is octagonal in section, the facets roughly 1 cm wide.
- The decoratively faceted character of this strut is well attested in mid-Imperial through Late Antique statuary, in the latter period very small thin struts were especially fashionable.
- Hollinshead 2002, 134-36.