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7551, Tuscania, Ara del Tufo, funerary sacellum

  • Record number: 7551
  • Site: Tuscania
  • Building or zone: Ara del Tufo, funerary sacellum
  • Roof element: Revetment plaques,figural
  • Remarks: Figural revetment plaque showing warrior's departure to left, variant 2. Preserves 3rd warrior with helmet with cheek pieces shield, 2 spears and lituus. Diam shields left 7.9 right 6.5. Clay of different fragments varies but had gray core.
  • Bibliography: Sgubini Moretti & Ricciardi 1993, pp. 172, 175, fig. 39, Departure scene I, var. 2; Winter 2009a, p. 243, 4.A.2.b, fig. 4.17, Ill. 4.8.3; Moretti Sgubini & Ricciardi in Tetti di terracotta 2011, pp. 76-78; Winter in Tetti di terracotta 2011, pp. 296-297
  • Publication record: Le terrecotte architettoniche di Tuscania
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
    Tetti di terracotta: La decorazione architettonica fittile tra Etruria e Lazio in età arcaica. Atti delle giornate di studio, Sapienza-Università di Roma, 25 marzo e 25 ottobre 2010
  • Type of decoration: Departing warrior scene to left (Departing warrior I,2)
  • Current Collection: Museo Archeologico: AdT 80/301, 303, 307, 322, 333
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 22.3
  • Width: 56
  • MPD: 6.3
  • Clay: Varies; with gray core
  • Paint: Red 7.5R 4/6. Black alternating strigils white/ black/ white/ red. White 10YR 8/3.
  • Height top fascia: 2.1
  • Depth top fascia: 6.3
  • Height strigil: 5.7
  • Width strigil: 2
  • Convex strigil: yes
  • Height main field: 14.6
  • Thickness plaque: 1.9
  • Thickness including relief: 2.7
  • Height strigil: 5.7
  • Width strigil: 2
  • Convex: yes
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