1091, Rome, Palatine

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Record number: 1091
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Palatine
Position: Pediment slopes
Roof element: Raking simas
Comparanda: Caprifico (Cisterna): Brown 1973-1974; La grande Roma, 9.6.76. Roman Forum: Andrén 1940, p. 333, No. I:9, pl. 105:376
Remarks: Fragment preserves torso of hare (W 7.9) running to right, above projecting flat border decorated with painted diagonal bands in red/white, with diagonal bands in opposite direction on soffit. Finished horizontal channel through tile at break
Bibliography: NSc 1907, pp. 540-541, fig. 63; Van Buren 1914, p. 184; Van Buren 1921a, p. 69; Andrén 1940, p. 328, No. I:3; Gjerstad 1960, p. 83, fig. 52.6; La grande Roma 1990, p. 94, 4.1.23; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 56, No. 35; Winter et al. 2009, Table 3; Winter 2009a, pp. 330-331, 5.A.1.b
Publication record: Architectural terracotta ornamentation in Rome from the sixth to the fourth cent. B.C.
Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.
La grande Roma dei Tarquini
New light on the production of decorated roofs of the 6th c. B.C. at sites in and around Rome
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The Archaic Etruscan sima
Associated elements: 12010; fragments in Gjerstad 1966, fig. 137.4-5
Type of decoration: Chariot race to right
Current Collection: Antiquarium palatino: 12013
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 8.5
Width: 19.2
MPD: 9.5
Clay: 5YR 7/8?
Paint: Red ground 7.5R 4/6, brown hare 5YR 5/6, red oblique stripes on border & soffit 10R 5/6-5/8
Condition: Fragment of bottom of vertical plaque & part of tile backer
Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
Thickness plaque: 2
Thickness including relief: 2.6
Mouldmade decoration: yes
Th. tile backer: 2.5
Thickness tile backer: 2.5

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