Fragment Painted Plaster

Title: Fragment Painted Plaster
Inventory Number: A0182
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Rome, ?Porta Salaria, ?Porta Pia
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Fragment of medium thickness with broad green stripe dividing black & red panels. Black panel apparently framed w thin white stripe within which traces of curvilinear decoration in white; green stripe bordered by stripes: one red with narrow white bordering stripes, other apparently plain white. Back fairly flat.
State of Preservation: Irregular right-angled triangle, all edges broken. Filmy incrustation over all.
Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 13.7 cm
Color: Wall body 5YR 7/1 (light gray); black 5YR 5/1 (gray); red panel 7.5R 4/6 (red); red border stripe 7.5YR 3/4 (dusky red); green 5G 6/2 (Pale green); white originally dead white; filmy incrustation 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray).
Type: wall decoration
Material: painted plaster