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. Author: Andrén, A.. Place of publication: Lund/Leipzig. Publication Date: 1939-1940 Etruschi, le antiche metropoli del Lazio. Author: Torelli, M. & A.M. Moretti Sgubini. Place of publication: Milano. Publication Date: 2008 Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier. Author: Helbig, W.. Place of publication: Tübingen. Publication Date: 1963-1972 Les Etrusques et l'Europe. Exhibition, Paris-Berlin 1992-1993. Place of publication: Paris. Publication Date: 1992
Type of decoration: Silen head
Last Recorded Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
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.
