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
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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
Last Recorded Collection: Museo Nazionale Romano, Baths of Diocletian
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
