854, Rome, Cispius
- Record number: 854
- Site: Rome
- Building or zone: Cispius
- Position: Eaves
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Comparanda: Satricum (Knoop 1981, p. 318)
- Remarks: Very large bearded head with snail curls across forehead, wearing wreath of ivy-leaves & berry clusters. Cream skin, with black hair, eyebrows, lids, pupil outline & central dot, upper square on base; red-purple pupil, moustache, bottom line & square on base; orange oval area on beard below lips, berry cluster at left side of head; light brown inside of ear, lips, Cream wavy vertical lines on beard which has moulded horizontal wavy ridges. Cream tendrils on forehead & ear edge. Back slightly concave with contour edge. Square strut on back.
- Bibliography: Helbig4 II, pp. 597-598, no. 1831; Andrén 1940, p. 345, No. I:3, Pl. 107:383; Gjerstad 1966, p. 458, fig. 130.1-2; Di Mino 1982, Pl. 16.1; La grande Roma 1990, p. 254, 10.1.4, Pl. XXVIII; Mura Sommella 2010a, p. 93, fig. 12
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Early Rome IV.1: Synthesis of archaeological evidence
Esquilino e Campidoglio: elementi della decorazione architettonica nella Roma dei Tarquini
Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rome, Bd. 1-4. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Hrsg. Von H. Speier
La grande Roma dei Tarquini
Note sulla decorazione coroplastica a Roma dal VI al IV secolo a.C. - Type of decoration: Silen head
- Current Collection: Antiquarium Comunale: 3374
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 33.1
- Width: 25.1
- Clay: 5YR 5/6
- Paint: Cream slip 10YR 7/3, red-purple 2.5YR 3/4-10R 4/3, orange 2.5YR 4/6, brown 7.5YR 5/4, black
- Condition: Breaks along left side
- Height head: 24.8
- Distance outer eyes: 11.3
- Width nose bottom: 5.9
- Width mouth: 5
- Height antefix base: 4
- Height strut: 4.3
- Width strut: 3.1
- Depth strut: 6.3
- Inner H cover tile: 6
- Outer H cover tile: 7.5
- Inner W cover tile: 11
- Outer W cover tile: 16.4
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