417, Caere?
- Record number: 417
- Site: Caere?
- Position: Pediment slopes
- Roof element: Raking simas
- Comparanda: Cf. Tarquinia columen/mutulus plaque 2742
- Remarks: 3 encoiled snake bodies with bearded heads (W 3.6, 3.9, 4.6), bodies resting on ledge=top of convex strigils (W 3.1). Heads have holes for meniskos. On back, finished flat surface behind bodies,slipped. Below, scar & beginning of tile?
- Bibliography: Christiansen & Winter 2010, p. 45, no. 10
- Publication record: Etruria I. Architectural terracottas and painted wall plaques, pinakes c. 625-200 BC.Catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Caprifico roof in its wider context - Associated elements: HIN 878-880; HIN 783: Herakles
- Type of decoration: Snakes
- Current Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: HIN 874-877
- Mouldmade: no
- Height: 16
- Clay: 7.5YR 6/4
- Paint: Cream slip 10YR 8/3, black, red
- Condition: Finished flat right edge
- Width strigil: 3.1
- Concave strigil: yes
- Width strigil: 3.1
- Concave: yes
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