1090, Rome, Palatine
- Record number: 1090
- Site: Rome
- Building or zone: Palatine
- Position: Pediment slopes
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Comparanda: Caprifico (Cisterna): Brown 1973-1974; La grande Roma 1990, 9.6.76. Roman Forum 1272: Andrén 1940, p. 333, No. I:9, pl. 105:376
- Remarks: Fragment preserves hindlegs of 2 horses facing right, with chariot pole & hindlegs of hare running below. Flat projecting border across bottom & part of tile backer preserved. Oblique channel through tile at break
- Bibliography: NSc 1907, pp. 540-541, figs. 62-63; Van Buren 1921a, pp. 64, 69; Andrén 1940, p. 328, No. I:3; Gjerstad 1960, p. 83, fig. 52.7; Gjerstad 1966, pp. 467, 470, 572, fig. 137.2-3; La grande Roma 1990, p. 92, 4.1.10; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 56, no. 35; Winter 2009a, pp. 330-331, 5.A.1.b
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Early Rome III: Fortifications, domestic architecture, sanctuaries, stratigraphic excavations
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.
La grande Roma dei Tarquini
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
The Archaic Etruscan sima - Associated elements: 12013; fragments in Gjerstad 1966, fig. 137.4-5
- Type of decoration: Chariot race to right
- Current Collection: Antiquarium palatino: 12010
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 8.8
- Width: 12
- MPD: 10.5
- Clay: 7.5YR 7/6
- Paint: Red ground, front horse legs, oblique stripes on border & soffit 10R 4/4, lighter red far horse legs 7.5R 5/6, cream stripes 10YR 7/3, black hare legs
- Condition: Fragment of bottom of vertical plaque & tile backer
- Decoration main field: Relief figured frieze
- Thickness plaque: 2
- Thickness including relief: 2.4
- Mouldmade decoration: yes
- Th. tile backer: 2.1
- D soffit decoration: 5
- Soffit decoration type: Painted oblique stripes in red/cream
- Thickness tile backer: 2.1
- Depth soffit decoration: 5
- Soffit decoration type: Painted oblique stripes in red/cream
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