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875, Rome, Esquiline

  • Record number: 875
  • Site: Rome
  • Building or zone: Esquiline
  • Position: Ridge
  • Roof element: Tiles, ridge
  • Comparanda: Gjerstad 1960, p. 144, Fig. 94.2
  • Remarks: Large semicylindrical ridge tile with recessed flange (Th 2, beginning 12.4 above tile bottom edge) with beveled underside, at one end. On either long side, 2 projecting, semicylindrical cover elements (H 29.6, W 28, D 17.1, 21.2 apart & 10.5 from flanged end, 11 from unflanged end), with surrounding concave band (W 3.5) at point of joint with ridge tile, and 2 raised ridges (outermost H 5, W 2, painted red-brown, innermost H 1.9, W 1.2) at outer end for locking into cover tiles of slope. In lower edges of tile, inside the cover elements, square openings (H 8.5, W 7.5) to receive raised side edges of pan tiles; heavy scoring above with sharp instrument. Handpainted oblique, crossing black bands (W 6-7) forming lozenge pattern on top surface.
  • Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 347, No. II:4, Pl. A:1; Helbig4 II, pp. 602-603, no. 1837; La grande Roma 1990, pp. 254-255, 10.1.5; Winter et al. 2009, Table 3; Mura Sommella 2010a, pp. 94-95, figs. 15-20
  • Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
    Esquilino e Campidoglio: elementi della decorazione architettonica nella Roma dei Tarquini
    Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier
    La grande Roma dei Tarquini
    New light on the production of decorated roofs of the 6th c. B.C. at sites in and around Rome
  • Type of decoration: Painted lozenge pattern
  • Current Collection: Antiquarium Comunale: 4400
  • Height: 29.2
  • Width: 124.5
  • MPD: 74
  • Paint: Black bands forming lozenge pattern
  • Condition: Complete
  • Height ridge tile: 30
  • Width ridge tile: 54
  • Depth flange: 4.6
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