3636, Poggio Civitate, Courtyard building
- Record number: 3636
- Site: Poggio Civitate
- Building or zone: Courtyard building
- Roof element: Revetment plaques,figural
- Remarks: Figural revetment plaque with horse race to right. H strigil tops 1.5. H raised boxes 1, 1.9, D 0.3. H relief guilloche 2.8. H guilloche circle 2.1. Diam guilloche eye .8. L front right horse front hoof- tail tip 23.5. H horse 14, L torso 15.1. L middle horse front hoof - tail tip 19.7, H horse 13.7, L torso 11.8. L left horse front hoof - tail tip 21.7, H horse 14.2, L torso 13.3. H cauldron 3.4, + stand 13.4, W 6.6, + protomes 7.4(?). Diam 5 nail holes .9. Strigils rather flat. Depth suggested by 1st horse overlapping 2nd horse, 2nd overlapping 3rd, etc.
- Bibliography: Root 1973; Case e palazzi d'Etruria 1985, p.123, 3.385; Phillips 1993, p. 42; Rathje 1993; Winter 2009a, pp. 183-184, 3.D.5.a, Ill. 3.7.1
- Publication record: An Etruscan horse race from Poggio Civitate
Case e palazzi d'Etruria
Il fregio di Murlo: status sulle considerazioni
In the hills of Tuscany. Recent excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Siena)
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C. - Associated elements: 72-230, 73-5
- Type of decoration: Horse race to right/relief meander/relief guilloche
- Current Collection: Antiquarium di Poggio Civitate: 73-30 111029
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 24
- Width: 54
- MPD: 5.5
- Clay: 7.5YR 5/4 - 2.5YR 5/8
- Paint: Traces of black paint as ground on some pieces, white on strigils overpainted purple-red. Purple-red on edges of horse and rider. Cloaks and guilloche 5R 4/3.
- Condition: Fairly complete plaque with crack down middle, chips from right edge to lower left corner.
- Height strigil: 4.5
- Width strigil: 1.9-2
- Height main field: 14.2
- Thickness plaque: 2.1-1.7
- Thickness including relief: 2.8
- Height strigil: 4.5
- Width strigil: 1.9-2
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