roof-tile
- Museum number
- 2008,5003.1
- Description
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Architectural terracotta fragment with painted decoration, part of an eaves tile that once formed the lower edge of the roof of a building on the Athenian Acropolis. Painted decoration in red, black and off-white on three sides. Double guilloche (with alternating red and black bands) with central row of pointed (palmette) leaves, pointing right, on the fascia facing outwards. Olive branch (light-on-dark ‘red-figure’ technique), pointing left, on the soffit facing downwards. Red strip along the front edge of the upper surface. There is a rectangular cutting for attachment on the left side, the left edge is broken.
- Production date
- 480BC-450BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Length: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The fragment is essentially of the same type as Akropolis Museum no. K216 (Buschor's Traufziegel XVIII), though here the olive wreath appears to run in the other direction.
See Vlassopoulou and Touloupa 1990, xxviii-xxix no. 58 (dated 470-460BC); Buschor 1929, vol. 2, 17-18, no. K2016, figs 21, 24, 25 (Traufziegel XVIII, 'Early Classical').
Buschor, E. 1929. Die Tondächer der Akropolis. Berlin.
Vlassopoulou, C. & Touloupa, E. 1990. ‘Decorated Architectural Terracottas from the Athenian Acropolis: Catalogue of Exhibition’. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 59(1), i–xxxi.
The fragment must come from Buschor's - Buschor TdA p. 17 (nos. K 216 and 217)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Acquisition notes
- A note in Martin Roberston's handwriting states that this piece was found in an antique shop in London.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2008,5003.1