5810, Caere(?)

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Record number: 5810
Site: Caere(?)
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Comparanda: StEtr X, Pl. XXV.4, XXV.6
Remarks: Female head antefix. Preserving part of base, head, and right side of floral shell. Paint well-preserved. Slightly hollowed behind head. Scar from cover tile. No strut. All proveniences are unsubstantiated in Louvre, except for recent attributions to Tuscania.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 51, Type III:11, Pl. 18:57; Riis 1981, Caere type 15A
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Etruscan types of heads
Type of decoration: Female head
Current Collection: Musée du Louvre: Cp 5932
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 24.4
Width: 21.1
Clay: 10YR 6/4
Paint: Cream slip 10YR 7/3. Black hair, eyebrows, lids, pupil, outline of tongue pattern on diadem, necklace chain, decoration on chiton, inner line of flat framing band and dots on it, plus ^s near beginning of volutes, outline of volutes, bottom square of meander on base. Red-brown 2.5YR 4/4-4/6 central vertical band on diadem tongues, lips, necklace and chiton, ivy stem, top square of base meander.
Height face: 10.1
Distance outer eyes: 6.6
Height antefix base: 3.5

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