855, Rome, Esquiline/Via dei Serpenti
- Record number: 855
- Site: Rome
- Building or zone: Esquiline/Via dei Serpenti
- Position: Eaves
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Remarks: Male head with erect animal ears, wearing wreath of ivy-leaves & 2 gold-brown berry clusters, bound with taenia. Face painted dark red-purple over cream slip. Red-purple on headband & ribbon folds over ears. Cream hair. Deeply modelled and fairly clear mould. Back concave & slipped cream with scar from strut at top. Bottom break at point where cover tile begins.
- Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 345-346, No. II:1, Pl. 107:385 (bottom with beard now missing)
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
- Type of decoration: Silen head
- Current Collection: Antiquarium Comunale: 3348
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 19.9
- Width: 24.8
- MPD: 8.5
- Clay: 7.5YR 5/4
- Paint: Cream 10YR 8/3, red-purple 10R 3/4, gold-brown 10YR 5/4
- Condition: Preserves upper part of head
- Distance outer eyes: 9.2
- Width nose bottom: 3.6
- Height strut: 4.1
- Width strut: 8.5
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