Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Chronology	Securely Archaic
Fabric Category	Terracotta
Object Type	Architectural::Akroterion
Year Excavated	1971
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