1612, Palestrina, Colombella

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Record number: 1612
Site: Palestrina
Building or zone: Colombella
Position: Pediment slopes
Roof element: Raking simas
Remarks: Raking sima vertical plaque with flat fascia with groove in top (D 4) for insertion of cresting/tall convex strigils with rounded tips/roll with painted diagonal bands/fascia with relief figured frieze of triga, biga & walking warriors, moving to left/pierced torus painted with zigzag bands. Triga with 3 winged horses (L front horse torso 15.7), chariot (H 4.2) driven by woman wearing tutulus. Beside biga (H 5.9) walks man wearing petasus & carrying lituus (augur or Hermes). Worn mould. At back, remains of flat tile backer & 2 thick struts, one leaving scar on tile top, 6 cm. from back of vertical plaque. On back near top edge 2 red painted large ciphers: V to left & VI to right (placement marks).
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 373-374, No. I:1, Pl. 115:406; Helbig4 III, pp. 851-852, No. 2980; Andrén 1974, pp. 3, 11, Pl. 1:1; Di Mino 1982, p. 67; Sprenger & Bartoloni 1983, p. 97, Pl. 66 bottom; Colonna 1984a, p. 402; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 54, No. 21; Winter 2009a, pp. 336-337, 5.A.3.b, fig. 5.6, Ill. 5.3.2
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier
I templi del Lazio fino al V secolo compreso
Note sulla decorazione coroplastica a Roma dal VI al IV secolo a.C.
Osservazioni sulle terrecotte architettoniche etrusco-italiche
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The Archaic Etruscan sima
The Etruscans: their history, art, and architecture
Type of decoration: Tall convex strigils/painted diagonal bands/relief figured frieze with triga, biga, walking warriors & augur, moving to left/torus
Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 27038/27039
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 56
Width: 63.2
Clay: 10YR 6/4
Paint: Cream 10YR 8/2 strigils, alternating bands on roll, tunics & helmets, petasus, middle horse of triga & 2 wings, mane & trappings of front horse, dog, chariots, reins, greaves, skin of female driver, front horse of biga, lituus, object held by 1st warrior, goads, alternating zigzag bands on torus; red 10R 4/6 top fascia, alternate interstices between strigils, alternate diagonal bands, skin, tops of helmet crests, 1st & 3rd horses of triga, alternate stripes on wings, tutulus, triga chariot, far horse of biga, trappings of biga horse, alternate zigzags on torus; purple 5R 3/3 edges of all 3 warriors' tunics & belt, female's chiton edges & folds, line at base of helmet crests, central warrior's skirt, band on petasus, augur's hair; black alternate interstices, alternate diagonal bands, background of frieze, horses' & human eyes, triga & biga front horse's manes, stripes, alternate stripes on wings, biga chariot ground, alternate zigzags on torus
Condition: Missing most of top edge & parts of torus; preserves complete width
Height top fascia: 1
Height strigil: 25
Width strigil: 3.3
Convex strigil: yes
Height main field: 20.4
Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
Thickness plaque: 4.1
Thickness including relief: 4.4
Mouldmade decoration: yes
Height strigil: 25
Width strigil: 3.3
Convex: yes
Height strut: 23.5/45
Width strut: 8.5
Depth strut: 4

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