1044, Rome, Forum Romanum - near Regia

Record number: 1044
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum - near Regia
Position: Pediment left slope
Roof element: Raking simas
Comparanda: Raking sima from Rome, Via S. Gregorio (No. A22). Phillips 1989a, p. 287, compares to Late Archaic raking sima from Boni deposit IIB:1 (torus) & fabric of Group IIA revetment plaques
Remarks: Flat fascia painted gold, with black wheel, left 1/2 red, right 1/2 white. Lower thick torus, perforated lengthwise, decorated with pattern of halved lozenges painted red/white/light blue/dark blue. Soffit painted with a lozenge pattern in vermilion, dark crimson & light blue. Pattern painted over incised network. At left edge, beginning of flange.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 334, No. II:2
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Type of decoration: Painted wheel/lozenges
Current Collection: Antiquarium forense: 1143
Height: 16
Width: 27.5
Clay: 2.5Y 7/4
Paint: Gold 10YR 6/8, blue on torus & soffit 5BF 7/1, red, vermillion
Height main field: 8.8+
Decoration main field: Painted wheel
Thickness plaque: 3.5
Painted decoration only: yes
Th. tile backer: 4.5
D soffit decoration: 10
Soffit decoration type: Painted tricolor lozenge pattern
Thickness tile backer: 4.5
Depth soffit decoration: 10
Soffit decoration type: Painted tricolor lozenge pattern

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/6F14704C-8844-4416-B25F-76177D2AE9D9