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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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