trial_description_8:
Fragment of pseudo-anthemion frieze. General description: Zone composed of (from bottom) plain taenia, running scrolls, alternating inverted and everted palmettes, plain taenia. For inverted palmette, cf. A 1681.
a) Three joining pieces. Central stalk of inverted palmette, tip of upper most leaf on right. Parts of first and second leaves on left.
b) Two joining pieces broken all around. Tops of second and third leaves on right side of inverted palmette.
c) Two joining pieces broken all around. Preserved: right half of shield-like palmette core, upper half of right scroll.
d) One piece broken all around. Preserved: Tip of second (?) leaf of everted palmette, parts of second and third leaves of inverted palmette.
e) Mended from 25 pieces. Nearly complete everted palmette; missing are various fragments of stalks, tips of second leaves on both sides, right scroll runs to next scroll giving dimension of ca. 0.21m. for distance from everted to inverted palmettes.
f) Three joining pieces. Preserved: nearly complete second leaf, small edge of first leaf of inverted palmette.
g) Nine joining pieces. Preserved: upper taenia, central stalk, first leaves on either side of inverted palmette.
h) Four joining pieces. Preserved: upper taenia, tip of first leaf of everted palmette, part of second leaf of inverted palmette.
i) One piece broken all around. Preserved: top of third and part of second leaves of inverted palmette.
j) One piece. Upper taenia and tip of central stalk of palmette preserved.
k) Two joining pieces. Upper taenia, half top of first leave of everted palmette preserved.
l) Eight joining pieces. Preserved: most of all three left side leaves, fragment of central stalk and of shield-like palmette core of everted palmette.
m) Eleven joining pieces. Preserved: continuous bottom taenia, most of two running scrolls, part of one shield-like palmette core.
From Northeast Complex (Basilica).
Marble.
dimensions:
P.H. a) 0.07, b) 0.098, c) 0.092, d) 0.083, e) 0.298, f) 0.115, g) 0.19, h) 0.153, i) 0.085, j) 0.043, k) 0.085, l) 0.143, m) 0.13; P.W. a) 0.15, b) 0.06, c) 0.047, d) 0.075, e) 0.337, f) 0.06, g) 0.14, h) 0.09, i) 0.058, j) 0.053, k) 0.085, l) 0.11, m) 0.415; Th. a) 0.016, b) 0.019, c) 0.017, d) 0.019, e) 0.021, f) 0.016, g) 0.019, h) 0.018, i) 0.017, j) 0.018, k) 0.02, l) 0.018, m) 0.023