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- AE 1053 broken on all sides; its original shape and dimensions cannot be determined. All surfaces are discoloured.
- An oblong fragment of white marble that preserves a simple tri-band geometrical motif on one face. The pattern may be a basket or net pattern.
- AE 1053 may be the edge of a basket pattern, which was very common (Verzone 1945, 163). See, for example, a fragment housed in Rome's Museo dell'Alto Medioevo dated to the late eighth/early ninth century (Melucco Vaccaro and Paroli 1995, no. 56) and another in Lazio (Raspi Serra 1974, no. 5b). AE 1053 could be part of a narrow block, preserving the edge of a braid pattern, nearby examples of which are found at SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Ferentino (Ramieri 1983, no. 19,) and in Rome at SS. Quattro Coronati, Rome (Vaccaro 1974, no. 168) and S. Andrea Cata Barbara (Pani Ermini 1974, vol. 1, no. 19). This last is dated to the reign of Pope Leo III (795–816).
- The motif on AE 1053 cannot be identified with certainty due to the fragment's small size. It may be the edge of the common basket or braid pattern like that preserved on AE 1034b, AE 1036a, and 1051b and 1168a. The weave on AE 1053 is more open then that encountered on AE 1051b and its tri-bands slightly wider (approx. 3 cm versus approx. 2.5 cm).