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416, Caere?

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  • Record number: 416
  • Site: Caere?
  • Position: Pediment slopes
  • Roof element: Raking simas
  • Remarks: Male torso in 3/4 view, wearing bell corselet with stomach muscles & lion-skin knotted across chest in Herakles knot. Below skin, another thick garment, painted red. Flat plaque to left of torso painted black/brown. Left side of figure & left back finished. Cavetto curvature of raking sima visible in break at left side.
  • Bibliography: Christiansen & Winter 2010, p. 44, no. 9
  • Publication record: Etruria I. Architectural terracottas and painted wall plaques, pinakes c. 625-200 BC.Catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Author: Christiansen, J. & N.A. Winter. Place of publication: Copenhagen. Publication Date: 2010
    The Caprifico roof in its wider context. Author: Winter, N.A.. Journal and volume number: Il tempio arcaico di Caprifico di Torrecchia. Place of publication: Roma. Publication Date: 2010. Pages: 113-122
  • Associated elements: HIN 874-877, HIN 878-880: snake heads and body = hydra of Lerna?
  • Type of decoration: Herakles
  • Last Recorded Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
  • Mouldmade: no
  • Height: 16.3
  • Width: 14.4
  • MPD: 11.6
  • Clay: 10YR 7/2
  • Paint: Thin buff slip, black, red 10R 4/4
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Last updated 07/08/2012 16:13:00 by Nancy Winter. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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