Part of roof-gutter with a palmette finial

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 110

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Architectural member

Period

Archaic Period

Date

Around 550 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.3 m
Length: 0.155 m
Width: 0.075 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 5, Νο 12

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. Along with the sima the bigger part of a floral akroterion has been preserved.

The roof-gutter bears a cyma with a tongue motif beneath a thin band of folded tongues. The akroterion is decorated with a palmette that blossoms between two spirals, all rendered with black and red paint.

Wiegand, Th., Die archaische Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen, Cassel/Leipzig, 1904, σελ. 189, εικ. 203, αρ. κατ. 12
Buschor, E., Die Tondacher der Akropolis, II, Leipzig, 1929-1933, σελ. 11-12, εικ. 11, αρ. κατ. Κ 14
Ανδρεάδη, Η., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ. (επιμ.), Πήλινες διακοσμημένες κεραμώσεις από την Αθηναϊκή Ακρόπολη, Κέντρο Μελετών Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα, 1989, σελ. 12, αρ. κατ. 13