Description

The clay tiles, as end tiles, decorated the ends of the roofs of the buildings and served for the drainage of rainwater. The simes from Kastritsa have a vertical front, 0.56 meters long and 0.10 meters high, which is decorated with relief themes. The center of the forehead is decorated with a relief hymn, with five petals (the central one, lance-shaped and the lateral ones, filamentous and flexible), growing from a knot-shaped core, and with two opposite spirals in its lower part. The hymn is flanked by two embossed dolphins, in a diagonal arrangement. The decoration is completed with double relief spirals at the left and right end of the tile. Most of the sherds did not bear additional colors, except for a few that have a whitish coating. In the section, the artificial termination of the decorative theme possibly means the existence of an opening, in the form of a gutter, for the drainage of rain. The dolphin, as a decorative subject, is very often found on the clay tiles of the 2nd and 5th centuries BC.