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Temple Model (about 510-450 BC)
Medma
Terracotta, dark red clay with white inclusions
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria, inv. 2875
[Cat. no. 35]

Temple Model (about 510-450 BC)

Terracotta was a medium well utilized in Magna Graecia. The roofs of temples and domestic dwellings were tiled with rounded terracotta roof tiles much like that seen in this small terracotta model of a typical Greek temple.

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