2301, Ostia Antica

Record number: 2301
Site: Ostia Antica
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Remarks: Female head antefix surrounded by ivy-leaves, rosettes and berry-clusters, wearing diadem, disc-shaped earrings, necklace with large bulla. Base flat and rectangular. Archaistic.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 369, no. 2, Pl. 113:401
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples. Author: Andrén, A.. Place of publication: Lund/Leipzig. Publication Date: 1939-1940
Type of decoration: Female head surrounded by ivy-leaves, rosettes and berry-clusters
Last Recorded Collection: Soprintendenza storerooms
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 17.4
Width: 16.6
MPD: 5.5
Clay: 10YR 7/3
Paint: Red rosettes and hair, decoration on base, necklace band 7.5R 4/4-4/6.
Height head: 9.5
Height face: 7.8
Distance outer eyes: 4.5
Width nose bottom: 1.7
Width mouth: 2.2
Type shell: Rosettes + berries
Width shell: 3.4
Height antefix base: 2.7
Width antefix base: 14
Width strut: 6.2
Inner H cover tile: 7.1
Outer H cover tile: 10.2
Inner W cover tile: 8
Outer W cover tile: 14.5

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