1827, Campania

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Record number: 1827
Site: Campania
Position: Eaves
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Remarks: Antefix plaque with mouldmade bearded head with horns & animal ears, surrounded by shell of convex tongues with very deep cordoned edges/torus/flat fascia ending in volutes. Face in flat relief, but sharp. Unusual round moulding along bottom of head, curving under volutes & ending in spiral below shell frame. Tall recessed base. Flat back with cover tile attached to bottom of plaque. Top of thin cover tile has unusual square ridge (H 2.5, W 3) running 9 cm along top of cover tile from back of plaque. Traces of burning
Bibliography: Koch 1912, p. 48, Type D, Pl. X.2; Die Welt der Etrusker 1988, p. 326, C 2.20; LIMC vol. I, p. 18, no. 82 (480-460 B.C.)
Publication record: Dachterrakotten aus Campanien. Author: Koch, H.. Place of publication: Berlin. Publication Date: 1912
Die Welt der Etrusker: archäologische Denkmäler aus Museen der sozialistischen Länder. Author: Kunze, M., & V. Kästner (eds.). Place of publication: Berlin. Publication Date: 1988
Type of decoration: Strigil shell/Acheloos head in relief
Last Recorded Collection: Antikensammlung
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 35.5
Width: 35.5
MPD: ca 17.7
Clay: 7.5YR 6/6 with gray core
Paint: No paint
Condition: Complete except for chips
Height strigil: 8.3
Width strigil: 5.4
Convex strigil: yes
Height head: 17.9
Height face: 15.8
Distance outer eyes: 7.1
Width nose bottom: 2.1
Width mouth: 4.1
Type shell: Strigil
Width shell: 8.3
Height strigil: 8.3
Width strigil: 5.4
Convex: yes
Width fascia: 1.6/1.4
Torus or flat: torus/flat
Height antefix base: 6.4
Width antefix base: 20
Depth antefix base: 3.6
Inner H cover tile: 10.9
Outer H cover tile: 13.2
Inner W cover tile: 11.7
Outer W cover tile: 15
Thickness tile: 1.5

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