1050, Rome, Forum Romanum - Curia Hostilia

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Record number: 1050
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Curia Hostilia
Roof element: Revetment plaques,figural
Comparanda: Raised fillet groundline: Veii, Piazza d'Armi
Remarks: Hind legs of feline in relief, in profile facing to right, on red ground, above a flat border decorated with broken meander in white & red. From 11th stratum of Comitium. Formerly in Antiquarium forense
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 333, No. I:5; Gjerstad 1960, p. 256, fig. 157.4; Gjerstad 1966, pp. 475-476, fig. 141.3; Andrén 1974, p. 7; La grande Roma 1990, p. 53 3.1.1 (assigned to first decoration of Curia); Winter 2009a, pp. 178-180, 3.D.2.a
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
La grande Roma dei Tarquini
Osservazioni sulle terrecotte architettoniche etrusco-italiche
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Associated elements: 118, 175, 803, 810
Type of decoration: Feline in profile facing to right
Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Romano, Baths of Diocletian: 1423
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 9.7
Width: 14.1
MPD: 2.6
Clay: 10YR 7/4 (cf. S.Omobono)
Paint: Red-brown surface including soffit 10R 4/6, traces of white meander on base
Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
Thickness plaque: 2.1
Thickness including relief: 2.6
Mouldmade decoration: yes

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