Fragment of a green monochrome tile, with lightly oblique edges, cut upward. Fine fabric, identical to the one identified for the glazed vessels of the Ghazni pottery corpus (Fabric no. 25). The slip unevenly covers the front surface, leaving small portions unslipped, that appear darker. The glaze is good and glossy. The rear surface is quite even and smooth. 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 (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 on the architectural surface.

Current location: Rome, Sapienza University

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Digital photos: A. Fusaro, 2011
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