Fragmentary red monochrome square tile, with lightly oblique edges, cut downward. The tile is almost complete, only one corner is missing because it was cut away intentionally (see below). The shape of the tile is irregular, the length of the sides is uneven. Fine fabric, identical to the one identified for the glazed vessels of the Ghazni pottery corpus (Fabric no. 25). The glaze shows a white alteration layer. Traces of the bedding mortar are visible in the front surface. The rear surface is uneven and cracked. A small piece of another earthenware object remained stuck to the rear surface of the tile, probably during the firing process. The tile shows at the missing corner a (post-firing) clean cut, perpendicular to the surfaces and with smoothed fractures; the cut was made intentionally; the cut was not made through the tile completely, so that the rest (the upper part) was broken manually in a far less precise way. Two hypotheses are suggested: the tile was cut to be reused after its breakage or the tile was cut for a proper fit before setting it into the architectural surface.

Current location: Rome, Sapienza University

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Digital photos: A. Fusaro, 2011
Drawings: A. Fusaro, 2020