4882, Lanuvium

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Record number: 4882
Site: Lanuvium
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Comparanda: Rome, Villa Giula 3798-3799, London British Museum B606, Leeds Museum
Remarks: Female head antefix with shell frame of cordoned convex tongues/openwork scale pattern/roll ending in upright palmettes. H diadem 2.8. On diadem, possible star in square at right side of meander. Total H palmette from bottom edge 10.9. Back of head hollowed. H strut bottom from top of cover tile 16.7. Dist from antefix plaque back to attachment of strut on tile top14. MPL cover tile 28.2.
Bibliography: Wiegand 1896, p. 17, fig. 4; Walters 1903, p. 171, B605; Fenger 1909, p. 15, fig. 53A, B; Strong 1914, pp. 166, 174, fig. 17; Luce & Holland 1918, p. 327, fig. 5; Luce 1920b, p. 353, fig. 1; Van Buren 1921a, p. 21; Andrén 1940, pp. 420-421, no. I:1; Winter 1978, p. 42
Publication record: Archaic architectural terracottas decorated with human heads
Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Catalog of terracottas in the British Museum
Etruscan shell-antefixes in the University Museum, Philadelphia
Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.
Le temple etrusco-latin de l"Italie centrale
Terra-cotta revetments from Etruria in the University Museum, Philadelphia
Terres cuites architecturales d'Italie
The architectural decoration in terracotta from early Latin temples in the Museo di Villa Giulia
Associated elements: GR1892.1-12.9 (B606)
Type of decoration: Female head
Current Collection: British Museum: GR1890.6-14.1 (B605)
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 38.2
Width: 43
Clay: 10YR 7/3
Paint: Cream slip 10YR 7/4. Purple-red on tips between strigil tops, alternating strigils on roll, alternating central or outer zigzags, outline of inner scale pattern openwork, on diadem face upper thin stripe and on meander, on side palmette central and outer leaves and tips between leaf tops, outer horizontal bands tying volutes, volute eyes 10R 4/3. Charcoal black alternating strigils, alternating palmette leaves, hair, eyelids and pupils, alternating zigzags on roll, top of diadem, lower stripe of diadem face and meander, outline of ear and dot at center of earring. Brown wavy locks painted on forehead below moulded hair and disk earring 5YR 4/3.
Height strigil: 4.2
Width strigil: 2.7
Height face: 13
Distance outer eyes: 8.6
Type shell: Openwork
Height strigil: 4.2
Width strigil: 2.7
Height strut: 22.3
Width strut: 3.6
Depth strut: 5.2
Inner H cover tile: 8.9
Outer H cover tile: 10.8
Inner W cover tile: 19.1
Outer W cover tile: 22
Thickness tile: 1.8

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