trial_description_8:
A diamond shaped Tholos tile, broken all around, probably form the same series as A 856 ff.
Buff clay, tempered with crushed tile and surfaced with pale yellow clay. On its top a crudely scratched sketch of an umbrella (?) with a horizontal line cutting across its stem.
Of this series of tiles numerous fragments have been found on all sides of the Tholos overlying the ground level of the late fifth center, and in contexts of that period; notably in the Kitchen Dump of Tholos Trench F, from its top down to the level of the bottom of the first set of curb stones (see notebook p. 2333) and in Tholos Trench M, layers I and II (see notebook pp. 2043, 2097). Some of the pieces show clear traces of burning. They would seem to come from the original covering of the Tholos and were apparently damaged in a fire that destroyed the building at ca. the end of the fifth century.