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The fourth edition of the Deliciae Fictiles conferences will focus on this specific class of mostly handmade terracotta roof decoration from Etruria and Central Italy, Campania and Sicily. Thus far, attention has been given mainly to roofs as whole decorative systems, and their mould-made repetitive elements, such as antefixes, raking simas, revetment plaques, eaves tiles and plain tiles. Previous conferences (Deliciae Fictiles I-III) have demonstrated the range of decorative systems and types and presented new material from excavations and museum storerooms, enlarging the known corpus immensely. The time has come to shift the topic to a more specific subject, namely the mainly handmade sculptural decoration. The often fragmentary and dispersed large and small-scale terracotta acroteria and high reliefs remain to a great extent unpublished and have rarely been the subject of separate publications. The Deliciae Fictiles IV conference committee aims to highlight this rich class of roof decoration and invites all specialists on the subject to present and discuss known and unknown material, albeit fragmentary and with lacunae, from excavations in Italy, as well as from private and museum collections in Europe and the United States.

Moreover, the conference will give an opportunity to present new discoveries and studies on architectural terracottas from Ancient Italy, in a separate section by means of posters.
The fourth conference on Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy (Deliciae Fictiles IV), will be held at the Villa Giulia/Villa Poniatowsky (21st of October), the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome October (October 22- 23) to be followed by a seminar and an excursion in Sicily, focusing on architectural terracottas from that area (October 24-25).

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