Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

ADDITIONAL TO THE STAMPED TILES FROM
THE HERAEUM.

(From the Excavations of 1894. and 1895.)

I.

Four additional fragments of the Sokles tiles.1

(a) SQKAH?

(b) S Q K /

(c) SQK . . a.

(d) \PXITEKTQN.

As these were found in various spots, (a) at the north side of
the West Building, (c) and (d) on and near the steps of the East
chamber, we still have no clue as to the building on which these
large tiles were used.

EL

A small, thin, flat piece, .08 m.X-05 m., nothing like the
Sokles tiles, yet bearing the letters

o I o I H .

These seem to indicate the same stamp that was applied at the
bottom of the Sokles tile which is found entire in the Polytech-
nikon at Athens, i. e., A A M 0 I 0 I H P A 2.2 The dimensions
of the letters coincide exactly, their height being .015 m., except
in the case of the omicrons, which are only half as high.

On a piece of tile painted black, with considerable curvature,
are the letters M 0 I 0 I. As the stamp is entire at the right
end, it did not in this case have H P A I, Otherwise the letters
are the same.

1 See paper above, pp. 262 ff. I saw in the Museum at Argos another fragment
of the same series, up to that time (April 30, 189-3) overlooked. It bore the mark of
the American excavators " West Stoa." This yields TfiX. In the same museum at
the same time I noticed also a tile fragment with the monogram \£ for k\, which
has an exact counterpart in a fragment now in the Museum at Athens.

J Ibid., p. 263.

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