Object: A 183
Inventory Number: A 183
Section Number: Ι 238
Title: Antefix Fragment
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Complete width and thickness preserved; top broken away.
Seven-petaled palmette rising from acanthus.
At the lower corners of the back, two triangular cuttings, apparently for fitting to the roof tile, form a tenon flaring upwards.
Pentelic marble.
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Context: Modern house walls, pre excavation demolition.
Storage: Shelves East of Stoa, Ε-2
Negatives: Leica, XXIX-54, XXIX-55
Dimensions: W. 0.242, (tenon at bottom) 0.063; Th. 0.116; D. (triangular cuttings) 0.06
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 1933
Section: Ι
Building: Odeion
Bibliography: Hesperia 19 (1950), p. 53 (noted).
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