| Inventory Number: A 772 |
| Section Number: Ζ 1220 |
| Title: Eaves Tile Fragments: Painted |
| Category: Architecture Terracotta |
| Description: Two non-joining fragments. On outer face an elaborate guilloche in purple and black with palmettes at the mid line. On the soffit, a band of astragal between two purple bands; on the top, along the outer edge, a purple band. Of fragment b) the right end is preserved, and returns at a right angle. On the end is a projecting part for locking it to its neighbor. Gritty buff clay surfaced with yellow. Other fragments of the same series: A 207 (Θ 1377) - brown fill; A 275 (Β 121) - late fill; A 293 (Β 483) - clearing porch of Tholos; A 426 (Β 964) - well at 15/ΛΔ, dump; A 450 (Β' 273) - mixed to late Roman fill; A 480 (Β 1274) mixed fill, 4th century and late Roman; A 581 (B 1511) - disturbed fill north of Tholos. Also many more: 1938. Fragment b) made up complete in plaster on analogy of A 861, a) left unrestored. |
| Context: Tholos Trench E, Layer III. |
| Notebook Page: 1758 |
| Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 21/2 (frag. a) North Basement-Architecture, Block 17/7 (frag. b) |
| Negatives: Leica, 8-107 |
| Dimensions: L. a) 0.20, b) 0.235; W. a) 0.15, b) 0.17; H. (outer edge) 0.08; Rest. L. b) (as made up in plaster) 0.835; Rest. W. b) (as made up in plaster) 0.69 |
| Material: Terracotta |
| Date Of Discovery: 5 June 1937 |
| Section: Ζ |
| Building: Tholos |
| Deposit: G-I 11-12 |
| Bibliography: Guide (1990), p. 52, pl. 22. |
| Camp (1986), p. 76. |
| AgoraPicBk 21 (1984), fig. 52. |
| Travlos (1971), fig. 698. |
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