Architectural Frieze Fragment

Item

Title

Architectural Frieze Fragment

Inventory Number

A0161

From Date

-25

To Date

100

Description

Flat slab with overhanging cavetto molding, top surface flat with broad deep rectangular-sectioned groove. On exterior surface relief decoration: double scroll composed of scrolls at top small and bound together with horizontal band, scrolls below widely separated with Gorgoneion in space between; beneath head small double scroll the termination of bands from large scrolls above. At top curving bands extend from base of scrolls to either side and terminate in inverted palmettes

State of Preservation

One edge finished surface, broken off at other edge and bottom, large fragment broken off from cornice at finished edge. Some wear of front surface, particularly under cornice and on surface within one of the lower coils.

Height

18.7 cm

Width

17.5 cm

Color

Clay body ca 10R 6/6 (light red); surface 7.5YR 8/4 (pink).

Notes

Slide Coll

Material