Architectural Frieze Fragment

Title: Architectural Frieze Fragment
Inventory Number: A0162
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Thick heavy fragment with deep depression at back from which back wall curves up towards edge which is broken off in top three quarters but has finished edges at bottom and toward front surface. Relief decoration on front:
State of Preservation: Broken off on one end and top and at back portion of other end. Slip and paints badly worn. Chipped on surfaces of garlands, bulls’ heads and rosettes; sporadic chipping elsewhere, heaviest at bottom edge.
Height: 12.47 cm
Length: 19.3 cm
Color: Clay body ca 10R 6/6 (light red); slip dead white; paint: 7.5YR 6/6 (light red), ca 2.5Y 8/8 (yellow), ca 5BG 7/1 (light greenish gray).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: architecture
Material: fired clay