305, Caere?

Record number: 305
Site: Caere?
Position: Pediment slopes
Roof element: Raking simas
Comparanda: Cerveteri, Vigna Parrocchiale
Remarks: Top of sima with flat vertical plaque with painted decoration: stepped pattern between thin bands with rows of dots/frieze with hook meander. Top & back flat, smoothed, with brown-orange wash
Bibliography: Winter 2009a, pp. 412-415, 6.A.2.c; Christiansen & Winter 2010, pp. 38-39, no. 7
Publication record: Etruria I. Architectural terracottas and painted wall plaques, pinakes c. 625-200 BC.Catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The Caprifico roof in its wider context
Type of decoration: Stepped pattern/hook meander
Current Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: HIN 707
Height: 12.5
Width: 21.6
MPD: 3.1
Clay: 2.5YR 5/6
Paint: Red 5R 4/4, cream 10YR 8/3-7/3, black
Condition: Fragment of sima top; 2 joining fragments
Thickness plaque: 3.1
Painted decoration only: yes

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