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4054

  • Record number: 4054
  • Roof element: Antefixes, heads
  • Remarks: Nearly life-sized male head, beardless but adult with skin painted red, black curly hair, wearing lion head painted brown-ochre, with red lips, white teeth. On back, surface concave, smooth, with top of raised relief tongue with finger indentation in top, probably reinforcement on back of antefix. Bought from M. Rocchitól.
  • Bibliography: Szilagyi 1988, p. 65, 58sz. Talán Orvieto.
  • Publication record: Ant. Möv.. Author: Szilagyi, J.G.. Publication Date: 1988. Pages: 72
  • Type of decoration: Male head in lion-skin helmet: Herakles
  • Last Recorded Collection: Szépmüveszeti Muzeum
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 22.1
  • Width: 19
  • MPD: 10.7
  • Clay: 2.5Y 7/2
  • Paint: Red face, no good color match but 7.5R 4/6 but more orange, between 4/6 and 4/8. black hair, brows, lids, pupils. White eyes 10YR 8/2. Golden brown pelt 7.5YR 5/4. Orange-red lips 10R 6/8.
  • Condition: Broken on all sides with many chips, nose broken and chin.
  • Height face: 13.7
  • Distance outer eyes: 7.8
  • Width nose bottom: 3.1
  • Width mouth: 3.8
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