1916, Caere, Vigna Marini Vitalini
- Record number: 1916
- Site: Caere
- Building or zone: Vigna Marini Vitalini
- Position: Pediment right corner
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Remarks: Flat vertical plaque with painted box meander (H 15) with star-flower in one box & hippocamp? in another, between painted borders of stepped patterns at top (H 2.5) and bottom (H 4.1) of plaque, separated from meander by band of stripes & boxes (H 1/1.4). H star-flower box 9.3. At right end, lateral acroterion of S-volute in relief (H 29.3, Th 4.5) with hole in top (W 3.3, D 1.2). On soffit painted decoration of rosette in circumscribed circles. Tile backer thickens to right from 1.9-4.5
- Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 26-27, No. II:2a, fig. 19a; Die Welt der Etrusker 1988, pp. 159-160, B 6.1.12; Danner 1993a, p. 102; Kästner 1997, pp. 98-101, no. 2, fig. 3, dated 520 B.C.; Winter 2009a, pp. 417-418, 6.A.2.e, fig. 6.6, Ill. 6.4.1
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Die Dekoration auf First und Giebelschrägen in der archaischen Baukunst Mittelitaliens
Die Welt der Etrusker: archäologische Denkmäler aus Museen der sozialistischen Länder
Ornamentik und figürliche Verzierungen an den Endstücken etruskischer Giebelsimen
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C. - Type of decoration: Painted stepped pattern/stripes & boxes/box meander/stripes & boxes/stepped pattern/circumscribed rosettes/relief S-volute
- Current Collection: Antikensammlung: TC 6681.12
- Height: 29.2
- Width: 66
- MPD: 6
- Clay: 5YR 5/6
- Paint: Cream 10YR 7/4, red 10R 4/4, brown 7.5YR 5/6
- Condition: 7 joining fragments preserving full height & width
- Height main field: 15
- Decoration main field: Painted star-box meander
- Thickness plaque: 3
- Painted decoration only: yes
- D soffit decoration: 6.8+
- Soffit decoration type: Painted circumscribed rosettes
- Height floral field: 29.2
- Height floral element: 29.2
- Width floral element: 14.1
- Depth soffit decoration: 6.8+
- Soffit decoration type: Painted circumscribed rosettes
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