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Object type: Incomplete architectural sculpture
Measurements: H. 41.9 cm (16.5 in); W. 29.2 cm (11.5 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Medium-grained yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 98.526
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 114
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Part of a frieze with a scroll inhabited by two birds. Framed at the top by a flat-band moulding and with a plinth at the base roughly hacked, possibly to hold mortar. The plant-scroll is a tree-scroll with tangled tendrils and with strongly marked ridged nodes on the main stem. The tendrils terminate in trilobed berry bunches or composites made up of pointed and horizontal leaves framing berries and, in one instance, a veined and elongated leaf. The stems are markedly thick in relation to the two birds which perch naturalistically on the uppermost volutes. That on the left is shown in profile with one three-toed claw gripping the branch and its beak open to peck at the fruit. Its eye is indicated by a round punch, its wings and tail by curving grooves. The bird on the right is nearly frontal, with both clawed feet gripping the branch. Its head is missing.
See no. 20.
