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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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