Fragment Painted Plaster Cornice

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster Cornice
Inventory Number: A0176
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, ?Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Moulded cornice w sloping face of overhanging upper portion decorated w relief w ivy leaves painted green & red on white background; central section , plain & vertical, painted red & finished w small torus at lower edge, below which green stripe & traces of insloping ?wall surface. No original surface preserved on back.
State of Preservation: Irregularly rectangular w top edge finished, one side broken off straight, the other diagonally, & bottom broken off parallel w top. Surface & paint badly worn.
Height: 8.41 cm
Width: 13.35 cm
Color: Wall body 5YR 8/1 (white); red 5R 4/6 (red); green 5BG 7/1 (light greenish gray); un painted plaster 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster