Fragment Painted Plaster

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster
Inventory Number: A0174
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, ?Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Thick fragment with originally large panels of solid black and solid red on either side of decorative border consisting of band of solid green and slightly broader band painted white with overlaid decoration: abstracted lotus and palmette: lotus flower rising from flanking leaves of green, floral element outlined with narrow black stripe which curves out to form stem of leaves; palmette reduced to a V-shape done in black paint. Back surface probably originally flat, now lumpy and irregular in most places.
State of Preservation: Irregular hexagon with all edges broken. Though heaviest in decorative band, whole painted surface lightly incrusted with dirt.
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 15.4 cm
Color: Wall body ca 2.5Y 7/2 (light gray); red 10R 5/6 (red); black 7.5YR N3/ (very dark gray); green 5G 6/2 (pale green); yellow 2.5Y 7/8 (yellow).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster