6604, Veii, Portonaccio sanctuary
- 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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