| Inventory Number: | S 740 | |
| Section Number: | Ν 592 | |
| Title: | Relief | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | A rectangular panel with heraldic design in low relief; the left side broken away. The central design is framed by a band of palmettes across the top, of floras scrolls on the side and bottom. In the center, two peacocks, back to back, separated by a stem with fruit on top; the stem rises out of the leaves (acanthus?) on which the birds stand. The heads of both birds are turned towards the center; the one at right is picking on the fruit; the one at left has head turned down with beak against his neck. Byzantine. Pentelic marble. | |
| Notes: | 01/ΜΒ* Originally built in the retaining wall, a slab in the altar of the Church (2020) | |
| Context: | Surface; upside down as door sill beside modern wall. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 6-223, IV-51 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.99; P.W. 0.62; Th. 0.11 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Chronology: | Byzantine | |
| Date: | 29 April 1936 | |
| Section: | Ν | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Bibliography: | AgoraPicBk 7 (1961), fig. 22. | |
| References: | Publication: AgoraPicBk 7 (1961) Images (7) Notebook: Ν-6 Notebook Page: Ν-6-67 (pp. 1100-1101) Card: S 740 Card: S 740 |
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