Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Chronology	Securely Archaic
Fabric Category	Terracotta
Object Type	Architectural::Akroterion
Motif	Animal
Fragment Noted	true
Object Type (notes)	Animal Statue, Leg and Tile Fragment
Size
Condition	Broken on three sides on tile, and across top of leg; glued from two fragments; very encrusted; traces of red paint on one side of leg.
Description	Fragment of leg of animal statue with foot and immediate section of tile; ridge pole tile fragment is smooth and preserves finished flat edge for its entire width; approximately 0.035 m from edge is foot, a smooth, rounded area of clay formed of two rounded ridges, one set behind and slightly higher than the other one; behind these ridges leg begins as rounded area curving away and up from foot - this widens into long shaft, rounded on front and back and flattened slightly on sides. In relation to curve of tile, leg is set at an angle slanting to right - presumably this was a left front foot and leg.
Fabric Description	Murlo terracotta
Has note	The Poggio Civitate Excavation Project website originally included this object at this address: http://www.poggiocivitate.org/catalog/viewartifactcatalog.asp?fid=PC1971050800