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Plain rectangular block, with a letter and two dots on one side.
Island marble.
Red fill; late Roman. 99 Leica ... 22 April 1947 |
Female head with very high headdress rendered in gouged style; the eyes pierced, and the headdress at the top, as if for suspension.
Mended from several pieces; lower part of face; upper part of headdress ... 1 July 1947 |
| Fragment from a thin flat circular plaque; preserved is the upper part of a lotus flower ornament in low relief, within a raised band. Above (around) the band, a series of triangular projections.
Apparently ... 8 July 1947 |
| The hair is drawn up into a bow-knot on the top of the head (or is this actually a bow?), and is gathered at the back in a plain projecting .
Earrings. Hair indicated by straight and crosswise grooves ... 15 July 1947 |
A figure with arms folded across the stomach.
The lower part preserved; finished off below the waist.
A hole pierced through on each side above finished lower edge.
White slip, decorated with red lines ... 15 July 1947 |
Standing bird with upspread wings: siren?
Broken off at the neck; the head missing; the claws chiped, and the sides of the wings. The back irregularly flattened; perhaps was attached to something.
Remains ... 15 July 1947 |
In rather high relief, the head, facing, and the arms of a person defending himself from a snake which has wound itself about the person's body and neck. His hands are raised to his neck to pull the snake's ... 2 October 1947 |
Conical relief. At the top, Orpheus, seated on a rock, a lyre in his left hand, his locks curling to his shoulders, drapery over his knees. Around him the animals: bear, lions and smaller creatures.
Mended ... 11 October 1947 |
Head with hair falling in gouged curls to her neck, crowned with a high headdress decorated front and back with herringbone pattern.
Broken off at the neck.
Faint traces of red and black paint.
Light reddish-brown ... 17 October 1947 |
A roughly semi-circular object with a crescent at one side. The other finished with a hoof-shaped surface. Pierced cross-wise through the hoof.
Surface flaked on one side; smooth buff surface, somewhat ... 1 April 1947 |
A small nude figure, being held by another figure, probably seated. Of the latter only the left hand and a bit of drapery below the hand of the child remain.
Broken all around.
No traces of color.
Pinkish-buff ... 18 April 1947 |
One edge of mold preserved.
Upper part of female figure (?). Sandy late Roman fill. 109 Leica ... 23 April 1947 |
Part of top and of side edges preserved.
Perhaps from mold for situla bracket with wreathed head, rather than from curved relief (?).
Uncertain representation. Part of fish and shell(?).
Light buff clay ... 24 April 1947 |
| Chin elaborated modelled; locks on neck; cornucopia shows relief of draped male looking left, draped female looking right between mouldings.
Head mostly missing. Cornucopia broken all around.
Traces of ... 8-9 April 1947 |
| Mold for the left side of a mask, apparently a female face; hair rolled back from face, eyebrows exaggerated.
Two finished edges preserved.
ADDENDA Cf. T 2439; close type. Well; near bottom, container ... 4 Oct 1947 |
Large plump face with heavy fall of straight hair, grooved. Original edge at back of hair.
Lower left side of face and hair preserved.
Orange-red paint on the face.
Buff clay.
ADDENDA Cf T 1205, T 1039, ... 1947-1948 |
Mold for bearded head (Pan?)with shaggy hair.
Chip missing at right.
Green-buff clay.
Cf. Fuchs (1963), Mahdia, pl. 53. ΜΣΤ-ΜΖ*
C 17 Great Drain; gravel below elliptical drain tiles. 411 Leica ... 8 May 1947 |
| Drapery for one side of a small standing female figure, preserved about from shoulder to mid-calf (?).
Part of one side preserved.
Plain surface at the right.
From a mold for a relief (?).
Cf. T 3935 ... 23 June 1947 |
| Plain rim fragment of shallow bowl.
Two shallow grooves on outside of rim; cluster of dots in relief on side.
Mold made (?) Light green glaze; dots blue (?) Dirt fill.
Late Roman. Leica, XXXIII-24 PD 505 ... 2 May 1947 |
| Broken all around.
Piece from side of relatively large dish, perhaps shallow bowl.
Interlocking four-petaled rosettes in relief; raised dots in field between.
Light green glass. Fill under lime pit no ... 9 May 1947 |
| Rim fragment from rather small deep bowl.
Plain rim; thick vertical ridges in relief on outside. Inside, a single shallow groove just below lip, and a pair of grooves about half way down preserved piece ... 16 May 1947 |
| Fragment preserving part of a broad projecting rim with down-turned outer edge.
A groove at inner and outer edge of rim.
Opaque bluish white glass. Late Roman fill. 868 Leica, XXXIII-26 PD 505, PD 2023-14 ... 18 June 1947 |
| A single fragment preserves the neck, the flaring rounded rim, and one handle, with the upper attachment of the other, of a miniature amphora.
Dark blue glass; the handles white glass. For contaxt see ... 2 July 1947 |
| From rim and wall of a fairly large bowl, moulded.
Bowl with plain slightly out-turned rim. Two grooves around the rim. On the wall a scale pattern formed of oval depressions.
Colorless glass. Agora sample ... 9 July 1947 |
| Two joining fragments give part of bottom and start of wall.
Group of shallow grooves at outer edge of bottom.
Pale greenish glass with dark blue laminations, appearing as dark blue blobs, inside and out ... 15 July 1947 |
| Handle and immediately adjacent part of wall only preserved.
Projecting thumb-rest and two spurs on handle.
Pale green glass. ΛΖ-ΜΣΤ* Great Drain, gravel. Early Roman. 1067 Leica ... 15 July 1947 |
| Some of neck and mouth missing.
Tall cylindrical neck; the glass doubled over to form a narrow projecting lip. Hemispherical body; flat bottom.
Opaque greenish blue glass. level of Late Roman house, or ... 14 July 1947 |
| Mended from four pieces; profile preserved to inside foot ring.
Ring foot; nearly flat bottom, upturned to form a very low wall; broad flat insloping rim, lightly grooved near inner and outer edges.
Nearly ... July 1947 |
| Small piece from the curving wall of a vase.
Part of a wing (?) and the end of a straight band, added in a second layer of glass. Small dots on the wing.
Thin colorless glass. On pebble mosaic floor. Container ... 11 July 1947 |
| High base and part of side preserved.
No pontil but roughish on bottom. Walls thin rapidly to top.
Dark green glass. Bubbles and spirals. Slight iridescent; no other weathering. Fill of 5th or 6th c. A.D ... 23 April 1947 |
| Fragment a): from vertical rim with ridges inside and out.
Fragment b): from flat bottom curving without break into side wall.
Pontil. Bubbles and spirals. Rim polished after folding.
Light blue glass; ... 30 June 1947 |
| Two joining fragments of base and lower wall; no finished edge.
Wheelmade, translucent, dark yellowish -brown. Thin-walled shallow bowl with narrow ribs and slightly concave base. Two narrow horizontal ... 14 July 1947 |
| Single piece of base and lower wall; no finished edge.
Wheelmade; colorless, with pale green tinge. Thin-walled shallow bowl with narrow ribs, flat base.
Context early 1st century AD. Added 9 July 2001 ... 14 July 1947 |
| Single piece of rim and upper wall. (Dropped and broken by Records office in August 2003. Now mended from several fragments.)
Blown glass, translucent yellowish-brown. Slightly everted rim, ground. Vertical ... 14 July 1947 |
| Single piece of yellowish green glass preserving part of base and lower wall.
Smooth on interior due to thickness of glass. Wall decorated with close-set ribs in low relief. Two concentric ridges below, ... 1947-1949 |
| Broken all around. Fragment from a pan tile.
Dull red glaze on concave side. On the corner side (unglazed) part of a circular stamp, with a horse in relief: head and one foreleg preserved.
Light brown ... 30 July 1947 |
Fragment from lower left part; bottom and side preserved; broken elsewhere.
Relief decoration on front much worn, but enough of tendrial and three letters in relief below remain to assign the fragment ... 3 April 1947 |
Broken at back; top of palmette chipped off at front. Below, letters in relief:
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ.
Red clay with white bits; light buff slip. Roman destruction debris. 101 Leica ... 21 April 1947 |
| Cover tile, broken at one end.
Preserved end cut back on inside for a width of 0.09m., to overlap next tile.
Inside rough-picked.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 1227 ( ΟΟ 174). Byzantine fill. Leica PD 2279 ... 1 June 1947 |
Obverse : head of Athena right.
Reverse : X, with kernos below.
Cf. Svoronos (1923), class VII or VIII (?). Originally entered as a coin no. 2. Sand fill in Great Drain at south edge of section.
Hellenistic ... 8 March 1947 |
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