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511, Caere

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  • Record number: 511
  • Site: CAERE
  • Position: PEDIMENT SLOPES
  • Roof element: RAKING SIMAS + ACROTERIA
  • Comparanda: COPENHAGEN NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK HIN 874-HIN 880
  • Remarks: FRAGMENT PRESERVES TOPS OF 4 LARGE ROUNDED TIPS OF STRIGILS WITH CONVEX TOPS, PAINTED RED/BLACK/RED/BLACK WITH CONTRASTING TOP EDGES, PAINTED OVER CREAM. ON TOP, TWISTED SNAKE-BODY FINIAL = ACROTERION. RED KNOBS MUST BE BEARD TIPS ATTACHED TO BODY; 2 ROUND SCARS ABOVE AT TOP OF PIECE WHERE HEADS WERE ATTACHED.
  • Type of decoration: BEARDED SNAKES/CONVEX STRIGILS
  • Last Recorded Collection: Museo Nazionale
  • Mouldmade: NO
  • Height: 9.6
  • Width: 15.3
  • Clay: 7.5YR 6/4
  • Paint: CREAM 10YR 7/4, RED-BROWN 2.5YR 5/6
  • Condition: FINISHED TOP EDGE
  • Cresting decoration: BEARDED SNAKES
  • Height cresting decoration: 5.8+
  • Width strigil: 3
  • Convex strigil: YES
  • Width strigil: 3
  • Convex: YES
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Last updated 07/08/2012 16:13:00 by Nancy Winter. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/166552E0-23BA-4587-AF8E-15E11BD1A3A7

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