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
Dates Excavated:   3 April 1933
Date Of Discovery:   3 Apr 1933
Section:   Ζ
Grid:   Ζ:54/ΚΑ
Longitude:   23.722275
Latitude:   37.974857
ZAverage:   0
Building:   Metroon
Bibliography:   Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 322, fig. 9.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 192, fig. 117.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:A 136
    Agora:Object:A 164
    Agora:Object:A 187
    Agora:Object:SS 113
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