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)
Dates Excavated:   1933
Date Of Discovery:   1933
Section:   Ι
Building:   Odeion
Bibliography:   Hesperia 19 (1950), p. 53 (noted).
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Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
Primary funding is provided by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).