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Antefix in the form of a gorgoneion. About two-thirds of the antefix proper preserved. Fragment from the forelocks and the lower right part of the gorgoneion missing, minor chips.
A red and black painted ... May 1953 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Painted ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Plastic |
Lower jaw and much of lower part of face missing. Red in eyes and on part of mane. Loose fill in Late Roman Fortification Wall. Leica ... 24 April 1959 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
| Oval with a thick top and long ridge, partly broken. Around sides, a zone of large pierced holes. Bottom edge flat. Red clay with coarse bits.
A lantern (?). Cf. A 3671 and MC 1346 (?). Herulian destruction ... 18 March 1958 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Miscellaneous |
Two joining fragments preserve a large lion's head spout which has the lower jaw, right ear and much of the nose missing. Traces of color in the eyes; a red pupil, surrounded by yellow; inside of the eyelids ... 4 August 1966 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
Lower jaw and right side of face preserved in two joining fragments.
Outline of molars scratched into the clay, the canines are inset. Quite a long snout and large chin. Traces of yellow paint high up ... 16 August 1966 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
| Full height and width preserved, full length undeterminable. The lion lacks most of its lower jaw and the right ear. A painted face of acanthus alternating with palmettes; below, a border of maeander ... 7 July 1967 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
Broken at both ends and at back; finished lower edge. Chipped.
Part of a large muzzle and eye (?).
Good roof tile fabric with smooth buff slip.
ADDENDA A spout of an eaves tile? Published as an archetype ... 1933 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Miscellaneous |
| Broken both ends and behind.
Plain vertical fascia.
Gritty buff clay, covered with thin yellow wash. Scratched in the dry clay on its inner surface: Α Cave; from layer of burnt material on cistern floor ... 31 May 1934 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
Broken at sides and back. Front part of head with nose and upper joint preserved. Light buff to pinkish buff clay, with small bits in it.
Cf. A 662, lion's head spout from ΠΘ, similar clay and size. Late ... 4 April 1952 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts |
Part of a large flat round (?) clay plaque, with a gorgoneion in relief on one side. Nose and mouth and part of one cheek preserved. Scale somewhat over life-size.
Tile fabric: coarse gravely pink clay; ... 17 April 1947 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Miscellaneous |
| One end preserved; also complete height.
A design of cable pattern and spirals recalling the simas of the Middle Stoa. Finished Piers 10-11, West. Stoa fill West of Tower. Leica ... 29 November 1949 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Miscellaneous |
Preserved in three joining fragments is the upper right hand corner, except the top, the face entire and the whole lower part.
The head, with hair parted and waved, crowned with a diadem and bunches of ... May-June 1936 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Brackets |
Fragment of lower right corner of a bracket like A 678 ( Ι 907), from the same mold. Clay is the same, but fired pinker. Great Drain. Leica ... May-June 1936 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Brackets |
| Part of an edge preserved, otherwise broken.
Some of the petals of the palmette of an antefix.
Coarse pink to buff clay. Finished Late Roman Fill in S.W. corner of section. Leica ... 20 April 1938 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Miscellaneous |
| The cover tile mended from several pieces; small fragments missing; the full dimensions preserved.
Elaborate relief decoration on the antefix: palmette, Medusa mask, and scrolls.
Coarse gritty red clay; ... 23 June 1947 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Plastic ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Roof Tiles | Cover Tiles |
Missing about a third, including all of one end. One long joint tongue. Light brown clay and wash; two bands in reddish brown glaze, much faded: one beneath collar at base of joint tongue, the other near ... May-June 1951 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
Broken all around, only part of stamp preserved.
Fragment of a pan tile with dull red glaze on upper surface. The stamp, a palmette, is on the under side.
Cf. A 1319, from ostrakon deposit in Section ... 20 April 1951 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Stamped |
| Left side and top preserved. On sima, traces of a painted design in red and white: anthemion and leaf (?). Horos Terrace Trench, Middle: Herulian destruction level. Leica, 80-83-12 ... 20 March 1953 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts | Painted |
A thin sliver broken from surface. Rope pattern at edge. Chevrons within.
Greenish buff clay. Well AB; box 2. 331 Leica ... 7 July 1959 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Miscellaneous |
| Mended from many fragments, few chips missing. Standard archaic water pipe with short tongue and flat-topped flange at upper end, long tongue and open flange at lower end. Carefully cut oval setting hole ... March 1956 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
Dipinti; graffiti on flanges. Archaic.
Same series as A 2600 (Τ 3586).
For discussion of dipinti and graffiti see notebook p. 6157.
Finished Found in position in the archaic pipe line that fed the Southeast ... March 1956 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
| Complete. Ribbed outside. Orange clay. Smaller round pipeline along the Panathenaic Way (along O-Z boundary line). 935 Leica, 85-537 ... July 1956 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
Dipinti; graffiti on flanges. Archaic.
Same series as A 2600 (Τ 3586).
Cf. picture, notebook p. 5454 (M.C. notes however that she never could see a trace of the upper half of the pipe itself.)
For discussion ... March 1956 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
Broken at top, bottom and back; petals chipped.
Alternating red and black (?) petals above a double spiral; ground cream. Clay yellowish buff with red bits. Exhibited in Stoa Shop XXI. Reported missing, ... 26 may 1954 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Painted |
| An architect's or mason's drawing, on black on half a brick, of a Cufic design, evidently for use in the masonry of the church. In wall of the Church of the Holy Apostles. Leica, LXX-100 ... 31 December 1954 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Bricks |
Three fragments, not from the same piece of pipe.
a) Mended from several pieces preserving a considerable part of one section; inset flange on the preserved end.
b) Fragment from another similar, also ... July 1950 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
Small piece, broken all around. Two lines in stamp.
Metroon series. Martyra on north side of northernmost east-west wall; black earth. Leica ... 24 May 1951 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Stamped |
Broken all around. Left eye and part of forehead of lion's head spout. Orange brown clay. White on eyeball, red near center. Red paint of eyebrow, on which the hair is modeled.
Somewhat similar to A 2306 ... 14 May 1953 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Simas and Lion Spouts | Painted |
Part of forehead, eye and nose of a brightly painted gorgoneion.
Red clay with bits. Red, white and black paint preserved.
Cf. A 2296 (ΜΣ 734). Well A, from dump. 1086 Leica ... May 1953 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Painted |
| a) Intact except for inset flange, which is in fragment b) cemented to it.
b) Joins a). Has inset flange of a), inside. Much white cement visible at joints.
Cf. A 2411 (Σ 2837) and A 1686 (Σ 1403). Early ... 11 December 1953 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
| At one end, part of the next pipe remains attached. The two fastened with white plaster.
Cf. A 1686 (ΣΑ 1403), A 2411 (ΣΑ 2837) and A 2413 ( ΣΑ 2889). One of the intake pipes leading into the cistern ... 1 April 1954 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Drains, Water Channels, Pipes |
| Flat base rim. Body tapers quickly and moves in. Broad glaze band at bottom. Pinkish buff clay with bits; gray core, light surface; black glaze mostly peeled. Seventh century well below east part of Odeion ... July 1946 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Well Tiles |
Broken all around. Buff clay.
Letters not very clear.
Mother of the Gods series. Dump. Leica ... December 1952 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Stamped |
Chip missing from lower right corner; trace of a five-pointed cover tile behind.
On the face, a flame palmette centered by a satyr head in relief. Traces of a signature in raised letters on band across ... 12 April 1939 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Antefixes | Plastic |
| About a quarter of the circumference preserved at the top; the profile complete.
Part of a large cylindrical object finished at the top with a broad flat projecting rim; the bottom edges slightly thickened ... May, June 1939 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Well Tiles |
Complete; cracked but glued together.
Plain curved roof tile. Brick red clay with white grits; pale buff on surface.
Grave, which it covered, set in Roman fill, but burial probably dates from latest Roman ... 20 July 1946 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Roof Tiles |
Small pieces missing. Rim slightly thickened above and below.
Large square lifting hole set near one edge. Well, Fill 4, late 5th century B.C. (earliest tiled well in the Agora). 6999 Leica ... 18 October 1947 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Well Tiles |
A single fragment preserves a corner and parts of six holes.
Small impressed circles along edge on one side.
Coarse buff to reddish clay; unglazed. Well, Container 12. 524 Leica ... 18 May 1938 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Window Tiles |
| Broken all around.
A tile with large openings made with arch-shaped strips of clay.
Coarse reddish clay. Well, Container 32. 525 Leica, 82-65-27, 82-65-28 ... 21 May 1938 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Window Tiles |
Broken all around. Surface beginning to rise at breaks on each side. Flat tile, gritty red clay. Circular stamp of eight-spoked wheel in relief. Mixed fill. Leica ... 1938 ... Architecture | Terracottas | Tiles and Bricks | Stamped |
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