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- Medieval low relief
- White marble
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- 7.5
- 7.0
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- The small fragment is lightly discoloured, chipped and pitted on all faces.
- One surface of the fragment preserved a simple guilloche pattern comprising two flat-faced bands carved in very low relief. The twisted bands are framed by two raised narrow bands.
- Guilloche patterns of various kinds (e.g. comprising flat-faced ribbon-like bands, bisected bands, trisected bands) were among the stock patterns of the period. In his discussion of low relief in Liguria, Paolo Verzone points out that the motif was common in Greece and Central Italy already in the seventh century (Verzone 1945, 161). Early examples in Rome include a band below an eighth-century inscription on an architrave from S. Adriano (Stella Arena, et al. 1994, 483–86, IV.2.a–f).