Agora Object: T 181
Inventory Number:   T 181
Section Number:   ΣΤ 490
Title:   Votive Shield Fragment
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   About half preserved; mended from many fragments; two others do not join. Remains of attachment of arm and hand straps.
Carefully laid out design, formed by intersecting arcs, which make the petaled-like ornament, and a series of large scallops which connect the points of the six petals, next the rim; these also in alternating red and blue, as are the triangles on the margin, in groups of five and six. Both red and blue laid over the white off the ground, the blue much less well preserved than the red. Inside, dark red.
Pink clay.
Cf. The shields device on a Geometric sherd: National Museum no. 283.
Notes:   Corrected or earlier drawing visible.
Context:   East of pillar. Found with T 176-177, T 179-180, T 195.
Negatives:   Leica, 2-364, 4-359, 84-52, 83-6-18, 83-6-19
PD Number:   PD 1127-2, Ptg. 253
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. 0.275
Date:   30 March 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:46/ΙΘ
Deposit:   H 17:4
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 638, n. 19, fig. 6; table 2, p. 644.
    Papadopoulos (2007b), p. 150, fig. 139C.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), no. 287, p. 612, fig. 79.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication: Hesperia 87 (2018)
Drawing: PD 1127-2 (DA 6442)
Drawing: DA 6742
Images (6)
Deposit: H 17:4
Notebook: Φ-7
Notebook Page: Φ-7-61 (pp. 1311-1312)
Cards and Envelopes (4)