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| Sides and back broken; height preserved.
Painted bead and reel along edge of bottom surface.
Coarse, buff clay, carefully painted in red and black on a fine greenish cream slip.
A 418 (Α 909, from Cave) ... 4 August 1931 |
| Part of left side of sima; taenia not preserved below.
Many traces of red paint.
Middle Stoa series. Provenience unknown. Leica, 84-45 1422 ... 1933 |
Broken at left and behind. Some of plastic decoration on face damaged, and taenia at bottom chipped.
Middle Stoa series. Modern back fill in trench of Valerian Wall. Leica 1422 ... 26 May 1949 |
Broken at sides and back. Front part of head with nose and upper joint preserved. Light buff to pinkish buff clay, with small bits in it.
Cf. A 662, lion's head spout from ΠΘ, similar clay and size. Late ... 4 April 1952 |
| Left side and top preserved. On sima, traces of a painted design in red and white: anthemion and leaf (?). Horos Terrace Trench, Middle: Herulian destruction level. Leica, 80-83-12 ... 20 March 1953 |
| Corner. Mended from several pieces.
Plain antefix. Broken below and at left. The lion's head is in excellent state of preservation. Traces of red on mane. Brown red clay with bits in it.
From Heliaia ... 4 May 1953 |
| Broken at back and bottom. Jaw missing. Few chips missing from hair, nose and right ear. Cracked. Traces of purple paint on hair, dark and light red on face; black for pupil of left eye; see A 2306 (Τ ... 25 April 1953 |
| Jaw, nose and left ear missing; broken behind. Chips of hair missing. Top of sima preserved behind. Three rows of flame locks blown forward. Light red clay with bits in it; light smooth finish on face ... 6 May 1953 |
Mended from two pieces. Broken at top, right and back; cracked; front much battered.
Floral decoration in relief; red background. Maeander painted in red on lower fascia. On back, near original left end ... 1953 |
Broken all around. Left eye and part of forehead of lion's head spout. Orange brown clay. White on eyeball, red near center. Red paint of eyebrow, on which the hair is modeled.
Somewhat similar to A 2306 ... 14 May 1953 |
| Broken all around. Part of ear, hair and edge of face preserved. Tip of ear and of locks missing. Brownish buff clay; fine cream colored surface for face. Yellow paint on hair.
(Not same series as other ... 2 June 1953 |
| Left end bit with fasciae at top and bottom, ovolo between.
Top: maeander with cross; ovolo: lotus and palmette; bottom: running spiral.
Painted decoration in dark and dilute brown.
Red clay; yellowish ... 20 April 1937 |
| Left side preserved.
Flat fillet across the top decorated with key-pattern; the squares between the keys painted purple. Below, decorating the curved molding and the flat band, large lotus and palmette ... 25 February 1938 |
| From a raking cornice; the full width preserved at the front, and the full height of the sima; much of the tile remains behind, with part of the right edge, but not the full depth.
Broad red band on soffit ... 20 May 1938 |
| The nose and lower jaw broken away and it is otherwise much battered. The sima is broken close all around.
Vigorously modeled in style of late fourth century B.C.
The inner core is made of pale yellow ... 1938 |
Lower jaw and much of lower part of face missing. Red in eyes and on part of mane. Loose fill in Late Roman Fortification Wall. Leica ... 24 April 1959 |
Broken at top, both sides and back. Decorated in high relief with a tendril ending in a bud above a fascia. Pink clay with temper; no trace of paint.
From Middle Stoa (?).
Cf. A 554, A 555, A 816, A 1422 ... 14 May 1965 |
Small fragment from top of sima retaining part of tendril.
From Middle Stoa. Catalogued 1965. Found 1951, but section unknown. Leica 1422 ... 1951 |
Broken right, left, below and behind.
Fragment from upright part of sima with tendrils in high relief. Slight traces of color.
Coarse purplish brown clay with bits.
From Middle Stoa. From reorganization ... June 1966 |
Two joining fragments preserve a large lion's head spout which has the lower jaw, right ear and much of the nose missing. Traces of color in the eyes; a red pupil, surrounded by yellow; inside of the eyelids ... 4 August 1966 |
Lower jaw and right side of face preserved in two joining fragments.
Outline of molars scratched into the clay, the canines are inset. Quite a long snout and large chin. Traces of yellow paint high up ... 16 August 1966 |
| Full height and width preserved, full length undeterminable. The lion lacks most of its lower jaw and the right ear. A painted face of acanthus alternating with palmettes; below, a border of maeander ... 7 July 1967 |
| The left half of a terracotta sima, preserved to full height. Trace of lion's head spout at right. A goodly amount of tile preserved behind.
On front in relief an ornate floral design. Red color on flat ... 24 April 1935 |
| Fragment of upper left corner of a sima similar to A 554.
Cf. A 1131 (ΚΤΛ 219). From near S.E. corner of Burnt Building but not certainly from debris. Leica 1422 ... 24 April 1935 |
A little of the original left end remains, with the joint surface. Broken at right end and behind.
Ovolo type with plain fascia above and below. On soffit a band of bead and reel, in red; on lower fascia ... 31 May 1934 |
| Broken both ends and behind.
Plain vertical fascia.
Gritty buff clay, covered with thin yellow wash. Scratched in the dry clay on its inner surface: Α Cave; from layer of burnt material on cistern floor ... 31 May 1934 |
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