1101, Rome, Forum Romanum - Regia IV

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Record number: 1101
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Regia IV
Position: Eaves
Roof element: Lateral simas
Remarks: Fragment preserves full height of vertical plaque, including flat narrow fascia/concave tongues/flat fascia, including part of cutout opening for antefix at left & top of feline head waterspout at right
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. CXXXVII, 333-334, No. I:10, pl. 105:375; Gjerstad 1960, p. 260, fig. 159.1; Gjerstad 1966, pp. 470, 577, fig. 138.1-2; Brown 1974-1975, pp. 32-33; Iacopi 1982, p. 67, figs. 13-14, Pl. 12.3; Cristofani 1987b, p. 97; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 56, No. 38; Downey 1995, p. 62, fig. 58; Winter 2009a, pp. 340-341, 5.B.3.a, Ill. 5.6.1
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Architectural terracottas from the Regia
Documentazione archeologica sulla Regia
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
I santuari: tradizioni decorative
La protostoria della Regia
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The Archaic Etruscan sima
Associated elements: Female head antefixes R64.250 etc.
Type of decoration: concave tongues/feline head waterspout
Current Collection: Antiquarium forense
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 17
Width: [48]
Condition: Missing right half of plaque, lower part of waterspout, lower left corner
Height top fascia: 2.8
Height strigil: 8
Width strigil: 2.9-3
Concave strigil: yes
Height main field: 6
Painted decoration only: yes
H feline spout: 15+
W feline spout: 11.5
D feline spout: 9.3
Mouldmade spout: yes
Cut-out for antefix: yes
Height strigil: 8
Width strigil: 2.9-3
Concave: yes

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