1370, Rome, Forum Romanum - Regia III

Record number: 1370
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Regia III
Position: Eaves
Roof element: Tiles, eaves
Remarks: Preserved lower right corner of flat tile with raised side edge up to end. 18.8 cm from front end & 6.2 from side edge is nail hole (Diam 0.8). On top surface, painted black triangle, beginning 7.3 cm from corner, pointing toward center of tile. Soffit painted with longitudinal black/white bands (W 8/5) with incised guidelines. From excavations around Temple of Castor & Pollux but probably belonging originally to Regia III
Bibliography: Fischer-Hansen 2008, p. 307, KK-11, fig. 311; Winter 2009a, p. 214, 3.F.3, Ill. 3.10.3-4
Publication record: Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Votive and architectural terracottas; Tiles (co-authored with C. Grønne)
Associated elements: Eaves tile with no number
Type of decoration: Painted black hourglass/painted black & white bands
Current Collection: Danish Academy: CA 29.141
Height: 4.8
Width: 27.5
MPD: 19.5
Clay: 10YR 7/3
Paint: black,white
Condition: 3 joining fragments
Thickness tile: 2.3
Inner H raised side edge: 1.9
Outer H raised side edge: 4.8
Width raised side edge: 2.1
Raised side edge shape: square

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