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| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Title | Frieze Plaque, Procession, Center |
| Primary photo | False |
| Photo Type | Cataloged Artifact |
| Photo ID | 8831 |
| Album ID | 95 |
| Description | This section preserves the biga with seated figures, the rear portions of the two horses, and the lotus fan of the first following woman (for the left side of this frieze, see 19660069 and 19660118). The guilloche and the cavetto and studs are preserved. The horses pulling the biga have slender bodies and spindly legs. The hind legs of the near horse are closer to the biga than those of the far horse and the tongue of the biga passes between the two tails. The biga itself is set well back from the horses; only its near wheel is shown which has four spokes set at right angles to each other and to the edges of the panel. Two figures (a man and a woman?) are seated on a platform which appears to rest on the top of the wheel. Below this platform, the framework of the carriage juts out in front and in back; it consists of two horizontal members, separated and fastened together by five vertical struts, two in front and three in back. The length of the projection at the back is four-fifths the diameter of the wheel. The figures are seated side by side, holding an umbrella with its pole in front of them; the rear section of the umbrella covers the figures and the front half extends well out in front. On the pole, above the hand, are two inverted conical projections; one at the top where the umbrella itself flares out and the other a little below it. At the outside ends of the umbrulla are short perpendicular terminations. The nearer figure appears to be a man with long hair and a beard. He is clothed in a long tubular garment which covers his legs down to his feet. His companion may be a woman; very little can be seen however, for he almost completly covers her (for a somewhat clearer preservation of the heads and upper bodies of these figures, see 19660091). Behind the figures the back of the seat extends up to the middle of their backs and ends in a curve away from them. Behind the biga, the lotus fan of the first woman following can be seen and below it the pot which she holds in her other hand (see 19660232). |
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Anthony Tuck. (2012) "19660231bw.jpg from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Civitate A/Civitate A 2A/1966, ID:405/PC 19660231". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2012-12-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/media/0920f6d7-95da-4aaa-6621-70d83486d6fe> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2jd4tj48
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