| 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 |
| Date Of Discovery: 18 May 1933 |
| Section: Θ |
| Building: Tholos |
| Bibliography: Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 75, 78, fig. 59. |
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