4210, Orvieto, Campo della Fiera

Record number: 4210
Site: Orvieto
Building or zone: Campo della Fiera
Roof element: Columen/mutulus plaque
Remarks: Columen/mutulus plaque with 3 male heads. W eye 2.7. Hole for meniskos in nearest head, Diam 0.9. Back flat and rough, detached from flat element. Pedimental rather than acroterial. Solid(?), handmade. Central figure has brown skin with black lines for wrinkles on forehead. Left and right figures have red skin. All have black beards and moustaches. All balding
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 191-192, no. I:3, Pl. 72:241; Die Welt der Etrusker 1988, p. 300, D4.1.2; Gens Budapest 1989, pp. 99-100, no. 3.8; Stopponi 2003, p. 264, fig. 20
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Die Welt der Etrusker: archäologische Denkmäler aus Museen der sozialistischen Länder
Gens antiquissima Italiae. Antichità dall'Umbria a Budapest e Cracovia
I templi e l'architettura templare
Type of decoration: 3 male heads
Current Collection: Antikensammlung: TC 7537
Mouldmade: no
Height: 17.7
Width: 18.8
MPD: 15.2
Clay: 10YR 7/4
Paint: Red 10 R 4/6. Brown 7.5YR 5/4. black eyelids and pupils. black wrinkles painted on brown forehead of central figure. Red skin 2.5YR 5/6. Brown skin 7.5YR 6/4-5/4. Colors painted over white slip 10YR 7/4.
Condition: 1 piece
Height head: 13.9
Height face: 12.8
Width nose bottom: 2.6
Width mouth: 2.9

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