Remarks: Pendent palmette antefix with strigil shell frame. Nearly complete with scar of round cover tile. Chip from top of top strigil. Th plaque 3.3. Shell fairly flat. W strigil at base + 2 ridges 2.8. H side strigils without border 3.5. Donated from Victoria and Albert Museum
Type of decoration: Palmette
Last Recorded Collection: British Museum
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 25.1
Width: 26.5
Clay: 7.5YR 6/4
Paint: Buff slip back and front. Orange around edge of cover tile 7.5YR 6/6 behind plaque. Red-brown on strigils, alternating outlining and double (exterior/interior) bands on strigils, diagonal bands on roll, background behind palmette, volute eyes, cordoned edges of palmette, stripe at top of base, guilloche outline on base 10R 4/4. Black band across bottom of base and soffit 7.5YR N2/.
