1073, Rome, Forum Romanum - Regia III
- Record number: 1073
- Site: Rome
- Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Regia III
- Position: Pediment slopes
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Comparanda: Rome, Forum Romanum: Gjerstad 1960, pp. 288, 293, fig.191.2
- Remarks: Fragment of raking sima vertical plaque with deeply curving profile, decorated with elongated convex strigils painted alternately red/white with flat tips red/white with red centers, separated by deep incisions. Below, flat plaque with painted guilloche with broad central white band flanked by narrower red band with outer white line between 2 black stripes. Formerly in Antiquarium forense
- Bibliography: Romanelli 1955, pp. 203-204, fig. 4; Gjerstad 1960, p. 288, fig. 191.1-2; Gjerstad 1966, p. 466-467, 573, fig. 137.1; Brown 1974-1975, pp. 26, 28; Iacopi 1982, p. 44, fig. 11; Case e palazzi d'Etruria 1985, pp. 189-190, no. 7, fig. 7:7; C. Wikander 1988, pp. 19, 21 n. 23, 97, 128-130, fig. 2; La grande Roma 1990, p. 60, no. 5, fig. 3.2.5, with hypothetical reconstruction of pediment, p. 133, fig. 1; Downey 1993, p. 239, figs. 10-12; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 56, no. 37, fig. 5.2; Downey 1995, pp. 79-80, no. 15, figs. 25-28; Winter 2006b, p. 349, fig. 2; Winter 2009a, pp. 160-162, 3.A.1.a, fig. 3.1
- Publication record: Acquarossa I.2: The painted architectural terracottas. Typological and decorative analysis
Archaic architectural terracottas from the Regia
Architectural terracottas from the Regia
Case e palazzi d'Etruria
Documentazione archeologica sulla Regia
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
Gorgons, Minotaurs and Sibyls: a shared early Archaic terracotta roofing system at Pithecusae, Cumae and Rome
La grande Roma dei Tarquini
La protostoria della Regia
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Terrecotte architettoniche del Foro Romano
The Archaic Etruscan sima - Associated elements: From Section 6b: raking simas R65.38, R65.34, ridge tile R64.337. From excavations below the Temple of Castors: CA 29.6 (CA 84-29)
- Type of decoration: Tall convex strigils/painted guilloche
- Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Romano, Baths of Diocletian: R65.24 406597
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 16.6
- Width: 14.1
- Clay: 7.5YR 7/4
- Paint: Red, white
- Condition: Fragment with part of top of vertical plaque
- Height top fascia: .8
- Height strigil: 10.2
- Width strigil: 3.2
- Convex strigil: yes
- Decoration main field: Painted guilloche
- Thickness plaque: 1.8-2
- Mouldmade decoration: yes
- Painted decoration only: yes
- Height strigil: 10.2
- Width strigil: 3.2
- Convex: yes
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