3812, Tarquinia
- Record number: 3812
- Site: Tarquinia
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Comparanda: Database ID 3818
- Remarks: Raking sima with relief figured frieze of armed riders to left. Ionicizing style. D strigils top 7.2, bottom ridge 4, bottom center 2.9. High relief. L left horse torso 18.4. D base from frieze ground 1.3. Nail hole with raised boss on tile 14 behind vertical plaque. Diam nail hole 1.3, Diam boss 4.5. Sequestered piece, exact findspot not certain, but said to come from city area south of Ara della Regina.
- Bibliography: Gli Etruschi. Nuove ricerche e scoperte 1972, p. 98 no. 190, pl. XXVIII.a; Cristofani 1981b, p. 196, pl. XIII.b-c; La civiltà degli Etruschi 1985, p. 267, no. 10.10; C. Wikander 1993, p. 90; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 57, no. 45; Cataldi 1993, p. 212, no. 27, fig. 13; Scavo nello scavo 2004, pp. 86-87, no. I.e.33; Winter 2009a, p. 334, 5.A.2.a, fig. 5.5, Ill. 5.3.1
- Publication record: Gli Etruschi. Nuove ricerche e scoperte
La civiltà degli Etruschi
Riflessioni sulla decorazione architettonica di prima fase in Etruria e a Roma
Scavo nello scavo. Gli Etruschi non visti
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Terrecotte arcaiche e tardo-arcaiche da Tarquinia
The Archaic Etruscan sima
The decorative systems of the Archaic sima - Type of decoration: Battle scene/armed riders to left
- Current Collection: Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 5064
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 35.5
- Width: 57.8
- MPD: 29
- Clay: 5YR 5/6
- Paint: White slip on ground and base. Black on 7th strigil, left shield rim.
- Height top fascia: 2.8
- Depth top fascia: 7.9
- Height strigil: 7
- Width strigil: 4
- Concave strigil: yes
- Height main field: 20.6
- Thickness plaque: 3.6
- Thickness including relief: 7.4
- Th. tile backer: 1.5
- Height strigil: 7
- Width strigil: 4
- Concave: yes
- Thickness tile backer: 1.5
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