Nautilus Frieze with Horses and Façade

Nautilus Frieze with Horses and Façade

Fragments preserving 1) four bands (white, brown, blue, brown) with applied dots setting off the blue band; 2) on white ground alternating yellow and blue nautili, each having three tentacles (blue for the yellow, yellow for the blue), the internal lines and outlines being indicated in black, the "eye" of the shell being added in white and orange-red, and the "eyes" of the tentacles in orange-red; 3) three bands of color (brown, blue, brown), again with white dots. Above is an architectural façade and horses' hooves.

Catalogue number: 1 F 2
Dimensions: total height of frieze with bordering bands 0.18 m.
Find spot: Inner Propylon (2), in front of southwest face of northeast wall

Reconstruction by Piet de Jong

AJA 65 (1961) pl. 60, fig. 16cd (photograph)
AJA 66 (1962) pl. 40, fig. 11 (drawing)
Lang (2015) pp. 147-149, pls. 79, 80, 81, J, R