Object: A 164
Inventory Number: A 164
Section Number: Ζ 361
Title: Roof Tile Fragment: Stamped
Category: Architecture Terracotta
Description: Preserved along one side, which has a raised edge nearly to one end. Other edges broken.
Coarse brick red clay, with buff slip (?).
Near the edge, the mark of the paw of an animal, made in the soft clay.
Stamped at the center of the tile: Ρ Ι Θ Ε Ω Ν
Μ Ω Ν Ι Σ
Cf. other pieces with the same stamp: A 136, A 164, A 187, SS 113.
Metroon series.
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Context: From Great Drain; brown gravel deposit.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 23/8
Negatives: Leica, 3-162
PD Numbers: PD 56
Dimensions: P.L. 0.48; P.W. 0.305; W. (raised edge) ca. 0.033, (estimated) 0.56; Th. 0.072; L. (estimated) 0.70; Lett. H. 0.014, (top line) 0.016
Material: Terracotta
Date Of Discovery: 3 April 1933
Section: Ζ
Grid: Ζ:54/ΚΑ
Longitude: 23.722275
Latitude: 37.974858
Building: Metroon
Bibliography: Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 192, fig. 117.
 Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 322, fig. 9.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 136
 Agora:Object:A 164
 Agora:Object:A 187
 Agora:Object:SS 113
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