7538, Tuscania, Ara del Tufo, funerary sacellum
- Record number: 7538
- Site: Tuscania
- Building or zone: Ara del Tufo, funerary sacellum
- Position: Pediment right apex
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Remarks: Raking sima with figural relief of gallopping armed riders to left. W bottom edge 49.2. D top of cavetto 9.4. Concave, deep strigils. D ridges 2.5, center 1.5. Th plaque 2.6 top, 3.6 bottom. Since AdT 80/211 is also from right side of apex, both pediments had same decoration.
- Bibliography: Sgubini Moretti & Ricciardi 1993, p. 169 (Cavalieri al galoppo I), fig. 27, color Pl. I (28), Tuscania B; Winter 2009a, pp. 244-245, 4.A.2.e, fig. 4.4, Ill. 4.2.4; Moretti Sgubini & Ricciardi in Tetti di terracotta 2011, pp. 76-78; Winter in Tetti di terracotta 2011, pp. 296-297
- Publication record: Le terrecotte architettoniche di Tuscania
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Tetti di terracotta: La decorazione architettonica fittile tra Etruria e Lazio in età arcaica. Atti delle giornate di studio, Sapienza-Università di Roma, 25 marzo e 25 ottobre 2010 - Type of decoration: Armed riders to left (Gallopping armed riders I)
- Current Collection: Museo Archeologico: AdT 80/244, 243, 245
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 18
- Width: 52.9
- Clay: 2.5YR 5/6
- Paint: Cream slip 10YR 7/4. Brown-red skin. Purple-red 10R 4/4.
- Height top fascia: 2.5
- Depth top fascia: 9.4
- Height strigil: 5.5
- Width strigil: 2.9
- Concave strigil: yes
- Height main field: 9.7
- Thickness plaque: 2.6-3.6
- Thickness including relief: 4.3
- Th. tile backer: 2.1
- Soffit decoration type: Vertical stripes of black and red.
- Height strigil: 5.5
- Width strigil: 2.9
- Concave: yes
- Thickness tile backer: 2.1
- Soffit decoration type: Vertical stripes of black and red.
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