Object: A 418
Inventory Number: A 418
Section Number: Α 909
Title: Sima Fragment: Painted
Category: Architecture Terracotta
Description: A little of the original left end remains, with the joint surface. Broken at right end and behind.
Ovolo type with plain fascia above and below. On soffit a band of bead and reel, in red; on lower fascia a band of maeander, double, with checkerboard squares, in red and black; on ovolo a band of egg and dart, black and red; on upper fascia a band of bead and reel, in black.
Gritty buff clay covered with a thin yellow wash.
This fragment joins A 105, see drawing on card of A 105.
Context: Cave; from layer of burnt material on cistern floor. South chamber, lower fill.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 20/7
Negatives: Leica, 79-3-8
PD Numbers: PD 245
Dimensions: P.H. 0.125; P.W. 0.15; P.L. 0.165, (joined) 0.315
Material: Terracotta
Date Of Discovery: 31 May 1934
Section: Α
Longitude: 23.721994
Latitude: 37.975749
Deposit: H 6:9.2
Bibliography: Hesperia 52 (1983), pp. 273, 291, no. 70, pl. 57.