Object: A 207

FieldValue
Inventory NumberA 207
Section NumberΘ 1377
TitleEaves Tile Fragment: Painted
CategoryArchitecture Terracotta
DescriptionVery 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.
ContextTrench Σ, in loose filling.
StorageNorth Basement-Architecture, Block 23/5
NegativesLeica, IX-64, 80-83-19
PD NumbersPD 76, PD 207
DimensionsW. 0.138, (red band) ca. 0.025; L. 0.115; H. 0.049; D. (dowel hole) 0.015
MaterialTerracotta
Date Of Discovery18 May 1933
SectionΘ
BuildingTholos
BibliographyHesperia Suppl. 4 (1940), pp. 75, 78, fig. 59.
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