Remarks: Raking sima with backward curving cavetto on which are flat convex strigils, with interstices, above a flat fascia with painted decoration. Strigils painted white/red-brown. Flat fascia decorated with white bands and boxes with central XI pattern in white on red-brown ground (W white band 0.9, W XI 3.7).
Bibliography: Gli Etruschi. Nuove ricerche e scoperte 1972, p. 87, no. 176, Pl. XXVI.c; Andrén 1940, p. 8, no. 1; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 57, no. 50; Scavo nello scavo 2004, p. 54, no. I.b.13; Bartoloni et al. 2006, p. 62, fig. 6.17.a bottom; Winter 2009a, pp. 239-240, 4.A.1.a, Ill. 4.1
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples. Author: Andrén, A.. Place of publication: Lund/Leipzig. Publication Date: 1939-1940 Gli Etruschi. Nuove ricerche e scoperte. Author: Colonna, G. & C.E. Östenberg. Place of publication: Viterbo. Publication Date: 1972 Scavo nello scavo. Gli Etruschi non visti. Author: Moretti Sgubini, A.M.. Place of publication: Viterbo. Publication Date: 2004 Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.. Author: Winter, N.A.. Journal and volume number: MAAR Suppl. 9. Place of publication: Ann Arbor. Publication Date: 2009 The Archaic Etruscan sima. Author: Wikander, Ö.. Journal and volume number: Murlo and the Etruscans, ed. R. De Puma & J. Small. Place of publication: Madison, WI. Publication Date: 1994. Pages: 47-63 Veio: l'abitato di Piazza d'Armi. Le terrecotte architettoniche. Author: Bartoloni, G. et al.. Journal and volume number: Deliciae Fictiles III. Place of publication: Oxford. Publication Date: 2006. Pages: 50-76
Associated elements: 137314, 137315
Type of decoration: Convex strigils/painted boxes with XI pattern
Last Recorded Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 8.6
Width: 13.5
MPD: 3.8
Clay: 7.5YR 5/6
Paint: White 10YR 7/3, red-brown 2.5YR 4/4
Condition: Single fragment broken through mid-strigils and at joint with tile backer
Width strigil: 2.3
Convex strigil: yes
Height main field: 4.7+
Decoration main field: Painted boxes with XI
Thickness plaque: 2.4
Painted decoration only: yes
Width strigil: 2.3
Convex: yes
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