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Title Ridge Pole Tile with Abstract Akroterion
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Photo Type Cataloged Artifact
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  • 30893
  • 28343
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Description Ridge pole tile with flat, "cut-out" type abstract akroterion: tile is simple semicircular shape with raised edges of clay roughly modeled into rope type pattern; long sides of tile are finished at bottom with slightly vertical edges of uneven height. At one end of tile is flat sided section of terracotta forming a cut-out akroterion roughly perpendicular to tile, but actually curved to one side; shape is roughly triangular with rounded bottom corners and pointed tip, with cut-out triangle inside, and with arched and inward curving limbs springing from upper section triangle on each side - the non joining akroterion fragment is one of the curved pointed tips of the limbs.
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Anthony Tuck. (2012) "19700344_2010_001.jpg from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 6E (2)/1970, ID:442/PC 19700344". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2012-12-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/media/912a9992-b175-41fe-e822-6e2bd2eb9cf1> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2q52k071

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