Architectural Terracottas from the Regia

Series

• Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome

Susan Downey has studied and catalogued the terracotta fragments surviving from the Regia, a building of great civic and religious importance that was located in the Roman Forum. Many of the fragments date from roughly the sixth to third centuries B.C., a period frustratingly ill-documented in the literary sources yet of considerable interest and importance in Roman history.

Praise / Awards

• "This careful study undoubtedly makes a very significant contribution to our understanding both of the evolution of the motifs of architectural terracotta decoration in Central Italy, and of the development of the craft. "
  —Classical Review