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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