1259, Rome, Forum Romanum - Regia III

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Record number: 1259
Site: Rome
Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Regia III
Position: Pediment slopes
Roof element: Raking simas
Remarks: Fragment of flat painted vertical plaque preserving total height & beginning of convex strigil at right top. Painted decoration of compass-drawn guilloche with depressions from compass 1.4 & 6.6 cm from right edge & 3.7 cm from bottom edge. Tile backer with nail hole (Diam 1.1-1.2) 9.8 cm from front edge along broken left edge; on soffit is a roughly incised line concentric with the hole.
Bibliography: Downey 1995, p. 79, no. 14, figs. 22-25; Winter 2009a, pp. 160-162, 3.A.1.a
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from the Regia. Author: Downey, S.B.. Journal and volume number: PAAR 30. Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI. Publication Date: 1995
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.. Author: Winter, N.A.. Journal and volume number: MAAR Suppl. 9. Place of publication: Ann Arbor. Publication Date: 2009
Associated elements: From Section 7: revetment plaques R65.18, R65.5/20, R65.21, R65.19, R65.6, R65.7, R65.55, R65.9, raking simas R65.15, R65.16, R65.17, hanging curtain? R65.77, boot of acroterion R65.22, pan tiles R65.64, R65.65, cover tile R65.12
Type of decoration: Convex strigils/painted guilloche
Last Recorded Collection: Antiquarium forense
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 8.8
Width: 12.5
MPD: 11.2
Clay: 7.5YR 7/4
Paint: Red on vertical plaque, strigil & as band (W 3.3) along front of soffit
Condition: Fragment of lower right corner with part of vertical plaque & tile backer
Height main field: 8.8
Decoration main field: Painted guilloche
Thickness plaque: 2
Painted decoration only: yes
Th. tile backer: 1.7
D soffit decoration: 3.3
Soffit decoration type: Painted red band
Thickness tile backer: 1.7
Depth soffit decoration: 3.3
Soffit decoration type: Painted red band

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