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1056, Rome, Forum Romanum - Regia III

  • Record number: 1056
  • Site: Rome
  • Building or zone: Forum Romanum - Regia III
  • Roof element: Revetment plaques,figural
  • Remarks: Relief revetment plaque with row of short, convex strigils across top, painted alternately white/red-brown, with flat, scalloped tips above painted the same colors. Below, flat fascia painted red-brown, above relief frieze with feline (W torso 15.4) in profile moving to left, followed by bull-headed man (H 14.5, H head 3.9), moving to left with frontal head, followed by feline head (H 6) in profile to left. Background painted red-brown. Thin fillet (H 0.5, D 1.9) as groundline, above flat bottom border painted with red/brown meander. Soffit painted red-brown. Nail hole (Diam 0.6)
  • Bibliography: Gjerstad 1966, p. 475, fig. 141.1-5 & 142 (reconstr.); Helbig4 II, p. 814, no. 2040; Iacopi 1974, pp. 32-33, fig. 27; Andrén 1974, p. 7; Brown 1974-1975, pp. 21ff. ; Di Mino 1982, p. Pl. 16.2; La grande Roma 1990, p. 61 3.2.13; Rystedt 1991; Rystedt 1993; Winter 2009a, pp. 178-180, 3.D.2.a, fig. 3.13, Ill. 3.5.1
  • Publication record: Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
    Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier
    L'Antiquarium forense
    La grande Roma dei Tarquini
    La protostoria della Regia
    Note sulla decorazione coroplastica a Roma dal VI al IV secolo a.C.
    Osservazioni sulle terrecotte architettoniche etrusco-italiche
    Panther followed by lion. On the reconstruction of the Regia plaques
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
    The Archaic frieze plaques from the Regia in Rome: some preliminary observations on style and iconography
  • Associated elements: 1919, 383778, 383779, 383785, 383784
  • Type of decoration: Felines & bull-headed man (Minotaur) moving to left
  • Current Collection: Antiquarium forense: 1918
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 26.5
  • Width: 38
  • MPD: 5.9
  • Clay: 10YR 7/3
  • Paint: red-brown 2.5YR 4/6
  • Condition: Missing upper left corner, section below feline. Finished left edge. Broken along right side
  • Height top fascia: 1.2
  • Depth top fascia: 5.9
  • Height strigil: 3.5
  • Width strigil: 3.2
  • Convex strigil: yes
  • Height main field: 15.1
  • Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
  • Thickness plaque: 1.7
  • Thickness including relief: 2.5
  • Mouldmade decoration: yes
  • Height strigil: 3.5
  • Width strigil: 3.2
  • Convex: yes
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