4039, Campania
- Record number: 4039
- Site: Campania
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Remarks: Gorgoneion antefix with shell frame. Flat shell of slightly convex tongues with raised borders. H lowermost tongue 5.7, W 2.7, + border 3.6. H central tongue 8.1, W 3.6, + border 4.6. TH 3. H rounded moulding 1.4. H recessed flat band 1.1. Diam volute eye 2.1. H head including beard 17.1. L lower fang 3.1. W tongue 3.4. H rounded moulding below head 0.6. H recessed base 6.4, W 19.3-21.1. Tall narrow projection above cover tile on back of flat plaque, H 14.1, W 2.9, D 2.3. Eyes very deeply set at inside similar to T.86. Disk earrings. Paint preserved on lower half only. Bought from P. Arndt.
- Bibliography: Die Welt der Etrusker 1988, pp. 231-232, C2.7
- Publication record: Die Welt der Etrusker: archäologische Denkmäler aus Museen der sozialistischen Länder
- Type of decoration: Gorgoneion
- Current Collection: Szépmüveszeti Muzeum: T.85
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 34.5
- Width: 33.4
- Clay: 7.5YR 6/6
- Paint: Cream slip 10YR 7/2. Red on alternating beard strands, tongue, teeth, wide band on lower rounded moulding, band across top of base and blocks 7.5R 3/4. Black on hair, alternating strands of beard, central meander band.
- Condition: Complete except for broken cover tile.
- Height head: 17.1
- Distance outer eyes: 9.4
- Width nose bottom: 3.9
- Width mouth: 9.3
- Height antefix base: 6.4
- Width antefix base: 19.3-21.1
- Outer H cover tile: 11.7
- Outer W cover tile: 17.3
- Thickness tile: 1.5
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