Object: A 554
Inventory Number: A 554
Section Number: Ο 616
Title: Sima Fragment: Plastic
Category: Architecture Terracotta
Description: The left half of a terracotta sima, preserved to full height. Trace of lion's head spout at right. A goodly amount of tile preserved behind.
On front in relief an ornate floral design. Red color on flat band above and on background. Maeander pattern in red on flat band below.
Middle Stoa series.
Cf. Α 555, A 825, A 1106, A 1131, A 1257.
Keyword: Middle Stoa for Ephoreia list 3
Context: Between strosis over Burnt Building and actual debris. Close to wall of outer apse of late Roman Building (some of cement of which clings to one end of sima). Probably belongs to Burnt Building.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 18/7
Negatives: Leica, XXXI-92, 84-47
PD Numbers: 1422
Dimensions: H. 0.12; W. (probably almost exactly half) 0.34
Material: Terracotta
Date Of Discovery: 24 April 1935
Section: Ο
Grid: Ο:37/Θ
Longitude: 23.723064
Latitude: 37.974739
Building: Middle Stoa
Bibliography: Camp (2007), p. 64, fig. 77.
 Hesperia 17 (1948), pl. 38.2.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:Α 555
 Agora:Object:A 825
 Agora:Object:A 1106
 Agora:Object:A 1131
 Agora:Object:A 1257.
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