Variegated Dado

Variegated Dado

These five complexes or pieces provide samples of the generally much damaged dado from the wall of the Stoa. (a) has a top straight edge of plaster and an upper border of three bands (gray or black, white, red or oragne). On (c) the gray, white and red border appears above pinkish-buff ground with a black diamond net-pattern. (d) shows most of the border above a pale blusish-white ground on which black lines compose a complicated pattern in which round-cornered concave-sided squares contain dividing lines and two or three circles and dots. On (e) below the white and red bands of the border on dark ground at the left is a striped Easter-egg type of stone.

Catalogue number: 13 D 44
Dimensions:
(a) h. 0.235 m., w. 0.20 m., th. unmeasurable
(b) h. 0.16 m., w. 0.20 m., th. unmeasurable
(c) h. 0.105 m., w. 0.14 m., th. 0.025 m.
(d) h. 0.135 m., w. 0.05 m., th. 0.03 m.
(e) h. 0.10 m., w. 0.06 m., th. 0.01 m.
Find spot: Stoa 44

Lang (2015) p. 173, pl. 98