Part of roof-gutter

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Provision of image

Inventory number

Ακρ. 9463

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Architectural member

Period

Archaic Period

Date

550-540 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.12 m
Length: 0.08 m
Width: 0.065 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 5, Νο 5

Description
Bibliography

Part of a roof-gutter made of clay. It is a raking sima belonging to the upper side of a pediment of an archaic building. Initially it bore painted decoration but only part of a braid and tongue motifs rendered in red and yellow colour are preserved.

Buschor, E., Die Tondacher der Akropolis, II, Leipzig, 1929-1933, σελ. 8, εικ. 1, αρ. κατ. Κ 3
Ανδρεάδη, Η., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ. (επιμ.), Πήλινες διακοσμημένες κεραμώσεις από την Αθηναϊκή Ακρόπολη, Κέντρο Μελετών Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα, 1989, σελ. 14, αρ. κατ. 21