Fragment Painted Plaster

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster
Inventory Number: A0177
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, ?Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Very thick fragment w one panel painted red w above narrow white stripe and broader maroon band & below white band decorated w row of green ivy leaves on curving red tendrils; narrow yellow stripe separates band from black-painted panel below. Flat back surface.
State of Preservation: Trapezoidal with all edges broken. Painted surface dirty & paint worn.
Height: 11.22 cm
Width: 12.79 cm
Color: Wall body 10YR 7/1 (light gray); red 7.5R 5/8 (red); maroon 5R 6/1 (reddish gray); dead white; green 5G 6/2 (pale green).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster