Architectural Frieze Fragment

Title: Architectural Frieze Fragment
Inventory Number: A0168
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Quadrangular fragment with relief head of youthful male wearing flat fillet with uraeus above forehead; face modeled in Early Classical style; hair in roll back from forehead with curls hanging down back of neck with incised lines articulating masses in roll and curls and running across crown . Traces of object held before face. Background painted blue, no clear traces of other colors.
State of Preservation: All edges broken, break removing chin and lower ends of pendent curls. Blue paint badly worn.
Height: 8.66 cm
Width: 8.4 cm
Color: Clay body 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); shading to surface 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: architecture
Material: fired clay