6604, Veii, Portonaccio sanctuary

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Record number: 6604
Site: Veii
Building or zone: Portonaccio sanctuary
Position: Eaves
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Remarks: Silen head antefixwith strigil shell frame.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 6, no. 3, Pl. 2:3; Pallottino, Saggi di Antichità, III, Pl. XXXVI.2; Les Etrusques et l'Europe 1992, No. 167; Helbig4 III, pp. 531-532, no. 2559; Etruschi, le antiche metropoli 2008, p. 204, 12.3
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Etruschi, le antiche metropoli del Lazio
Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier
Les Etrusques et l'Europe. Exhibition, Paris-Berlin 1992-1993
Type of decoration: Silen head
Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 2342 VEX 06
Mouldmade: no
Height: 36 (44R)
Width: 41
MPD: 31
Clay: 7.5YR 6/4-6/6
Paint: Cream slip over which painted strigil edges, half-disk edges and dot, raised encircling band, eyeballs 10YR 8/3. Black alternate strigils and opposite alternate half-disks at bottom, and all their top edges, decoration on raised fascia above head, diadem front, eyebrows, lids, pupils, beard and moustache, hair, outline of volute and conical eye. Red-brown alternate strigils and opposite alternate half disks, dots on raised fascia above head (below black pattern) central band inside animal ears, lips. Brown skin 2.5YR 3/4.
Height face: 17.8R
Distance outer eyes: 8.9
Width nose bottom: 4
Width mouth: 4.3
Height antefix base: 3.8
Width antefix base: 21.9R

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