Object: A 147

Inventory Number:   A 147
Section Number:   Θ 494
Title:   Antefix (?)
Category:   Architecture Terracotta
Description:   The lower left corner, and a few small chips missing; otherwise complete except that a roughened band on the smooth plain back shows the point of attachment to a cover tile (?).
In low relief, a thirteen-petalled small palmette rising from an acanthus scroll, with small subsidiary palmettes at the sides.
Coarse red clay, buff slip, traces of white paint.
Context:   S.W. trench extension. Middle Stoa building fill.
Storage:   Study Collections-Case No. 48-Γ
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. 0.094; W. 0.062; Th. 0.016
Material:   Terracotta
Dates Excavated:   10 March 1933
Date Of Discovery:   10 Mar 1933
Section:   Θ
Grid:   Θ:17-32/Β-Ε
Elevations:   60.10m.
Longitude:   23.722466
Latitude:   37.974514
ZAverage:   60.1
Bibliography:   Muller (1997), p. 117, n. 227.
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
Primary funding is provided by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).