Object: A 207

Inventory Number:   A 207
Section Number:   Θ 1377
Title:   Eaves Tile Fragment: Painted
Category:   Architecture Terracotta
Description:   Very coarse red clay with red bits; fine cream slip on soffit, face, and front part of top.
On the face a very elaborated guilloche with central palmettes, painted in black, with accessory red, on the cream slip. On the soffit, a band of red along the outer edge. A dowel hole runs through the tile from top to bottom, 0.06m. from the face.
There is a considerable series of these fragments: A 207, A 275, A 293, A 426, A 450, A 480, A 581, etc.
Context:   Trench Σ, in loose filling.
Storage:   North Basement-Architecture, Block 23/5
Negatives:   Leica, IX-64, 80-83-19
PD Numbers:   PD 76, PD 207
Dimensions:   W. 0.138, (red band) ca. 0.025; L. 0.115; H. 0.049; D. (dowel hole) 0.015
Material:   Terracotta
Dates Excavated:   18 May 1933
Date Of Discovery:   18 May 1933
Section:   Θ
Building:   Tholos
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 75, 78, fig. 59.
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1997.04.0132
Excavations in the Athenian Agora are conducted by the American School of Classical Studies.
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