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7342, Caere

  • Record number: 7342
  • Site: Caere
  • Position: Eaves
  • Roof element: Antefixes, heads
  • Comparanda: Kore 671, 530-525 B.C.; replicas: Mon. dell' Inst. Suppl. Pl. 2, fig. 4; Berlin TC 6681.3 (3); Copenhagen NCG HIN 48; Kiev 85 SK; Munich 5170; Rome MNR 380168; Vatican 13883
  • Remarks: Female head antefix wearing tall, flat diadem, disk earrings, and painted necklace.
  • Bibliography: Walters 1903, p. 175, B624; Van Buren 1921a, pp.16ff (Antefixae, Div. IV, type VIII), Pl. VIII:4; AndrĂ©n 1940, p. 32, Type II:11a, Pl. 9:28; Vighi 1931, pp. 116-, Pl. X:3; Winter 2009a, pp. 437-438, 6.C.4.b, Ill. 6.9.2, Fig. 6.17
  • Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
    Catalog of terracottas in the British Museum
    Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.
    Le terrecotte templari di Caere
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
  • Type of decoration: Female head wearing tall, flat diadem, disk earrings, and painted necklace
  • Current Collection: British Museum: GR 1893.6-28.4 (B624)
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 24-27
  • Paint: Diadem decorated with red stripe across center with row of buds above and below, painted green with black outline on black ground. Hair red-brown with black wavy stripes; below ear, 2 wavy red strands (restored). Face cream. Eyebrows, eyelids black. Right pupil black-brown, left overpainted green. Lips red. Disk earrings equal to red rosette with black outlines. Black necklace.
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