Fragment Painted Plaster

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster
Inventory Number: A0180
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, ? Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Thick fragment w white background on which single slender red stalk fr which project on either side green & red blooms on curving red stems. On back widely spaced narrow grooves where attached to wall.
State of Preservation: Irregularly elliptical fragment w all edges broken. Dirt incrustation over painted surface.
Height: 6.37 cm
Width: 13.59 cm
Color: Wall body 10YR 8/1 (white) at core, 10YR 8/2 (white) to int; discolored background ca 10YR 6/2 (light brownish gray); red 5R 4/8 (red); green 5G 5/2 (grayish green).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster