Object: A 170
Inventory Number: A 170
Section Number: Ι 208
Title: Antefix
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Dimensions fully preserved; lower corners and a few chips missing.
At the bottom of the back surface are two triangular cuttings apparently for fitting to the roof tile.
In low relief: petaled palmette rising from acanthus bed.
Pentelic marble.
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Context: Modern house wall.
Storage: Shelves East of Stoa, Ε-2
Negatives: Leica, XXXV-97
Dimensions: H. 0.38; W. 0.25; Th. 0.134; D. (cuttings) 0.058
Material: Enamel
Date Of Discovery: 5 April 1933
Section: Ι
Building: Odeion
Bibliography: Hesperia 19 (1950), p. 53, pl. 39 b.
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1997.10.0082