Fragment Painted Plaster

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster
Inventory Number: A0173
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Fairly thick fragment with flat surface where original back preserved. Primary wall surface painted plain green; single decorative ?h/v band pres: background yellow with borders of narrow black red and white stripes with traces of solid black band or panel toward broken edge of one side; within band decoration in black, probably originally consisting of elongated, sword-like elements separated by lozenge-shaped elements terminating in opposing loops.
State of Preservation: Irregularly quadrilateral fragment with all edges broken. Paint badly worn.
Height: 11.36 cm
Width: 10.87 cm
Color: Wall body ca 5Y 8/1 (white); green background 5G 7/2 (pale green); added red 7.5R 6/4 (pale red); added yellow 2.5Y 7/4 (pale yellow); added white ca 5Y 8/1 (white).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster