1046, Rome, Forum Romanum

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Record number: 1046
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum
Position: Pediment left slope
Roof element: Raking simas
Comparanda: = Rome, Antiquarium palatino 12010. Caprifico (Cisterna di Latina)
Remarks: Fragment of relief figured frieze with tall bottom border. Chariot (painted brown with red wheel) drawn by 3 horses whose hind legs (painted brown/red/white) are preserved. In foreground, in front of chariot, are forelegs of 2 other horses (painted brown/red) galloping in same direction, to right, below which is small part of running hare. Ground red. At bottom, flat projecting bottom border, painted with diagonal bands alternately white/red, continuing onto soffit in opposite direction (W band 2).
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 333, No. I:9, Pl. 105:376; Gjerstad 1960, p. 261, fig. 160.5; Gjerstad 1966, pp. 467-470, fig. 137.5; Andrén 1974, p. 4, No. 17, Pl. VII, fig. 20; Iacopi 1974, p. 44; Gantz 1974-1975, p. 5, fig. 30; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 56, No. 14; Winter 2009a, p. 330-331, 5.A.1.b, fig. 5.2, Ill. 5.1.2
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
L'Antiquarium forense
Osservazioni sulle terrecotte architettoniche etrusco-italiche
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Terracotta figured friezes from the workshop of Vulca
The Archaic Etruscan sima
The procession frieze from the Etruscan sanctuary at Poggio Civitate
Type of decoration: Chariot race to right
Current Collection: Antiquarium forense: 1272
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 12.3
Width: 20.2
MPD: 8.5
Clay: Burned, brown
Paint: Red 7.5R 4/8, white, brown
Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
Thickness plaque: 1.4
Thickness including relief: 2.3
Mouldmade decoration: yes
Painted decoration only: yes
Th. tile backer: 2.2
D soffit decoration: 4.7
Soffit decoration type: Painted oblique bands wh/red
Thickness tile backer: 2.2
Depth soffit decoration: 4.7
Soffit decoration type: Painted oblique bands wh/red

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