3314, Poggio Civitate, T17 H4

[View larger image][Add to photograph album]

Record number: 3314
Site: Poggio Civitate
Building or zone: T17 H4
Roof element: Raking simas
Comparanda: Ch. Wikander 1981 p. 24 Raking sima A! (Type I) with cavetto, white on red decoration; p. 124 figs. 77-78, Antefix 67 with painted tongues in red on white; p. 128 sima G6 Type I figs. 81, 82, G8 + G9 cavetto with painted tongue, also Zone F raking sima with lotus and palmette. Urn lid from Cerveteri with separately made volute acroterion and pediment with flat raking sima: Rystedt 1983, p. 106, figs. 69-71.
Remarks: Fragment of raking sima cavetto moulding with painted tongue pattern, incised guidelines. Finished tile edge at right, no flange. At bottom of back, beginning of outward curve to tile backer. Center of tongues painted white with red outlining band. D center top 4.2, bottom 2. H top border 2.1. Horizontal band across top painted red, H 1.2. W 3 preserved tongues + borders 4.2. Other fragments, 1 from CA 2I. Excavation notebook: EN, II 1971 p. 223 #11
Bibliography: Winter 1999; Winter 2000; Winter 2009a, p. 72, 2.A.1.a, Ill. 2.1.1
Publication record: New information concerning the early terracotta roofs of Etruria
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The early roofs of Etruria and Greece
Associated elements: Found in the same trench: Riders head 69-284 and horse head 69-204 from cutout acroterion, 71-800 cutout acroterion, 71-824.
Type of decoration: Painted tongue pattern
Current Collection: Excavation Storerooms: 71-959
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 9
Width: 13.3
MPD: 5.5
Clay: 5YR 6/8
Paint: Surface red 10R 5/8. Tongue centers (1st + 3rd only?) painted white.
Height strigil: 8
Width strigil: 3
Painted decoration only: yes
Height strigil: 8
Width strigil: 3

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/6F1A626A-D26F-44B2-9265-407CEA75D5E1