2594, Caere
- Record number: 2594
- Site: Caere
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Remarks: Female head antefix with shell frame of palmette and lotus. H diadem 3.5. Rectangular strut. Openwork shell, deeply curving. Cover tile cutout notch (H 3.5) at left side bottom, 24 cm behind front edge.
- Bibliography: Monumenti Inediti 1891, Pl III: 2; Fenger 1909, p. 16, fig. 56; Luce & Holland 1918, pp. 324-325, fig. 2, Type I; Van Buren 1921a, p. 19f (Antefixae, Div. IV, type XVII) Pl. XIII:1; Vighi 1931, pp. 133f, Pl. XIII:2; Giglioli, p. 133, Pl. XII:2; Andrén 1940, p. 50, Type III:8, Pl. 17:53; Die Welt der Etrusker 1988, p. 176, B6.1.29 (dated 490-480 B.C.)
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Die Welt der Etrusker: archäologische Denkmäler aus Museen der sozialistischen Länder
Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.
Le temple etrusco-latin de l"Italie centrale
Le terrecotte templari di Caere
Terra-cotta revetments from Etruria in the University Museum, Philadelphia - Associated elements: Counterpart to Silen antefix TC 6681.2c
- Type of decoration: Female head/floral
- Current Collection: Antikensammlung: TC 6681.2b
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 52.2
- Width: 44.3
- MPD: 42
- Clay: 2.5YR 7/4
- Paint: Cream 10YR 7/4 skin, volutes, palmette outlines. Purple-brown (red) 2.5YR 4/2, black-blue 5Bg 6/1. Brown diadem 7.5YR 6/6. Red dot earrings 5R 4/6.
- Condition: ca. 14 joining fragments
- Height head: 17.1
- Height face: 14.5
- Distance outer eyes: 8.8
- Width nose bottom: 3.1
- Width mouth: 3.9
- Height floral field: 16
- Width palmette: 18.1
- Height lotus: 10.8
- Width lotus: ca. 12.8
- Type shell: Floral
- Width shell: 16.5
- Width fascia: 2.1
- Torus or flat: torus
- Height antefix base: 4.8-3.9
- Width antefix base: 28.5
- Depth antefix base: 4.3
- Height strut: 26.4
- Width strut: 4.5
- Inner H cover tile: 9.7
- Outer H cover tile: 11.9
- Inner W cover tile: 17.5
- Outer W cover tile: 22.2
- Thickness tile: 2.3
Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/10C4E8D8-4976-48AA-8B49-A86BEBAE502E
