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Fragment of an antique terracotta frieze with alternating columns and palmettes
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Fragment of an antique terracotta frieze with alternating columns and palmettes
Possibly Late Republic
Moulded terracotta
Height: 20cm
Width: 20cm
Thickness: 4cm
Width: 20cm
Thickness: 4cm
Museum number: M999
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 453
On display: Dome Area
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This fragment is a section of a Sima1 slab consisting of alternating columns (only one remains) and palmettes springing from vases, between continuous fillets and all below a serrated top moulding.
A less ornamental and less carefully executed example of a form which dates from the later Roman Republic and of which the best example is found in the Campana collection in the Louvre, Paris.2
1 A sima is the upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter (from the Greek simos, meaning bent upwards).
2 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, p. 242, pl. III, no. 1.
A less ornamental and less carefully executed example of a form which dates from the later Roman Republic and of which the best example is found in the Campana collection in the Louvre, Paris.2
1 A sima is the upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter (from the Greek simos, meaning bent upwards).
2 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, p. 242, pl. III, no. 1.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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