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282, Poggio Buco

  • Record number: 282
  • Site: Poggio Buco
  • Roof element: Revetment plaques,figural
  • Comparanda: Munich
  • Remarks: Very low, fat strigils/recessed relief frieze/projecting relief guilloche. Scene left to right: 1st horse has large slanted eye, mane with horizontal incisions, forelegs raised in gallop, small rider. 2nd has forelegs overlapping hindquarters of 1st, head forward, rider slanting sharply back. 3rd: forelegs overlap tail of 2nd, rider leaning backward. ?Not a race? Riders at back seem to be pulling on reins to slow horses. Small nail hole in strigil interstice & in frieze (Diam 0.5)
  • Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 78, No. 5, Pl. 25:90; Poulsen 1966, p. 31; Andrén 1974, p. 5, Pl. XIV, fig. 33; Winter 2009a, p. 183, 3.D.4.b, fig. 3.15 (mislabelled HIN 218), Ill. 3.6.2; Christiansen & Winter 2010, pp. 114-115, no. 54
  • Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
    Etruria I. Architectural terracottas and painted wall plaques, pinakes c. 625-200 BC.Catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
    Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Den Etruskiske Samling
    Osservazioni sulle terrecotte architettoniche etrusco-italiche
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
    The Caprifico roof in its wider context
  • Associated elements: Revetment plaque with stags and griffin; lateral sima
  • Type of decoration: Unarmed riders to left
  • Current Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: HIN 220 (H.177)
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 20.7
  • Condition: Restored from many fragments
  • Height top fascia: 1.3
  • Height strigil: 3.2
  • Width strigil: 2.7
  • Convex strigil: yes
  • Height main field: 13.2
  • Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
  • Mouldmade decoration: yes
  • Height strigil: 3.2
  • Width strigil: 2.7
  • Convex: yes
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