Original scientific paper
Painted Plaster from a Roman Villa on the Sorna Peninsula near Poreč
Astrid Mirjana Majkić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1278-7256
; S. Martin 26, Vodnjan
Abstract
This paper discusses fragments of painter plaster from a Roman
villa located on the isthmus of the Sorna peninsula to the
south of Poreč. The preserved décor is from the wall and ceiling
surfaces and the openings. The only figural depiction that is
almost entirely preserved is from the ceiling decoration and
depicts a winged Erote. For the most part few fragments have
been preserved from a single section. The ceiling fragments are
decorated with linear bands that imitate embroidery borders,
vegetative tendrils and the motif of intersecting circles. Among
the wall decorations are fragments depicting imitations of
columns on red and yellow backgrounds, and imitations of
marble. The archaeological context cannot be identified given
that this Roman period villa has not been fully investigated
and there is no data on the purpose of the room to which these
fragments belonged.
Keywords
Sorna; Roman villa; winged Erote; ceiling decoration; imitation of an embroidery border; imitation of columns; openings
Hrčak ID:
182631
URI
Publication date:
12.11.2016.
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