Fragment of a red monochrome square tile, with cut straight edges. Fine fabric, identical to the one identified for the glazed vessels of the Ghazni pottery corpus (Fabric no. 25). The glaze shows a light white alteration layer in some spots of the rear surface. The rear surface is quite smooth but cracked. The tile shows 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 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 on the architectural surface.

Current location: Rome, Sapienza University

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Digital photos: A. Fusaro, 2011
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