. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 33 This broad tile bedded in stucco is also used as a ridire- tile as shown in the last figure (fig. 42). This tile is a direct survival of the ancient Roman tile which in turn has been derived from the Greeks, unless both Greeks and Romans were indebted to the Etruscans for it. The modern tile is much smaller and thinner. It is often rep- resented in the pictures of old Italian masters (fig. 43). (From a painting by Botticelli in Dresden gallery.). Fig. 43. A modern tile, probably interl
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 33 This broad tile bedded in stucco is also used as a ridire- tile as shown in the last figure (fig. 42). This tile is a direct survival of the ancient Roman tile which in turn has been derived from the Greeks, unless both Greeks and Romans were indebted to the Etruscans for it. The modern tile is much smaller and thinner. It is often rep- resented in the pictures of old Italian masters (fig. 43). (From a painting by Botticelli in Dresden gallery.). Fig. 43. A modern tile, probably interlocking, quite small in size, but made somewhat after the style of the tile last described, is occasionally seen. The tegula tapers much more abruptly and is used as an imbrex. ANCIENT ITALY. The ancient Roman tile consists of a large flat rectan- gular tegula with lateral edges turned up, and a narrow semi-cylindrical or angular imbrex, both tegula and imbrex being heavy and massive. At the Antiquarian Museum at Zurich are a number of ancient Roman tiles; these have the lateral edges abruptly turned up, the imbrex is angular in section (fig. 44). On the exposed and lower edge of the tegula are a few curved marks as if made by the fingers. As these marks are seen on similar Roman tiles at the Royal Antiquarian Museum at Brussels and elsewhere, it would seem to be a special furnace-mark of the maker, or possibly to indicate the lower end of the tile. On the under surface of each tegula, ESSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XXIV 5. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Essex Institute. 1n. Salem, Mass. , Essex Institute
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