518, Caere, Vigna Parrocchiale
- Record number: 518
- Site: Caere
- Building or zone: Vigna Parrocchiale
- Roof element: Revetment plaques, floral
- Remarks: Top of plaque with recurved tops of concave tongues, alternately gray/white/red/blue/gray, above projecting flat fascia (D 5.3), recessed frieze with painted central star flanked by half-circles (white center, with outer gray band W 2.-3.5, Diam 14). Back of plaque top curved behind concave tongues, reflecting their front profile. Incised guidelines for star with compass-drawn circles. No nail holes. Found in fill of cistern to SE of habitation area, filled by 500 B.C., giving terminus ante quem
- Bibliography: Cristofani 1986b, pp. 15, 19, n. 28, no. 2, Pl. 1a; Cristofani 1990a, p. 278; Cristofani 1992a, pp. 49, 56, fig. 101, Pl. V, B 40; Bellelli in Veio, Cerveteri, Vulci 2001, p. 126, II.A.2.4, Pl. VII bottom; Winter 2009a, pp. 461-462, 6.D.4, Ill. 6.16.1
- Publication record: Caere 3.1. Lo scarico arcaico della Vigna Parrocchiale
Nuove terrecotte decorative da Cerveteri
Nuovi dati per la storia urbana di Caere
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Veio, Cerveteri, Vulci. Città d'Etruria a confronto. Catalogo della mostra, Roma, Museo Nazionale Etrusco - Associated elements: Raking sima Type I B 15 & antefixes Type II
- Type of decoration: Concave tongues/flat fascia/painted star & half-circles
- Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 83.51-1, 54, 103, 105, 107
- Mouldmade: no
- Height: 35.5
- Width: 54
- MPD: 8.2
- Clay: 5YR 5/6
- Paint: White 10YR 7/4, red 7.5R 3/8, turquoise ground & strigils 5G 5/1, gray
- Depth top fascia: 5.9
- Height strigil: 6.1
- Width strigil: 3.8
- Concave strigil: yes
- Height main field: 25.6
- Decoration main field: Painted star & circles
- Thickness plaque: 2
- Painted decoration only: yes
- Height strigil: 6.1
- Width strigil: 3.8
- Concave: yes
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