4653, Caere(?)
- Record number: 4653
- Site: Caere(?)
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Remarks: Bottom half of Silen head antefix with shell frame. Beard in 3 superimposed layers of curled locks. Clay doesn't look Caeretan. On back hollowed behind nose and mouth; below, scar of cover tile with thick added clay underneath to bond to plaque.
- Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 53, no. III:17; Cianferoni 1991, pp. 123-124, no. 41, fig. 54
- Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Materiali ceretani del Museo Archeologico di Firenze - Type of decoration: Silen head
- Current Collection: Museo Archeologico: 75461
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 17.2
- Width: 17
- MPD: 12.6
- Clay: 10YR 7/3
- Paint: Black beard and moustache. Red skin and band on encircling rounded band.
- Condition: Missing top of head and shell frame
- Width nose bottom: 3.6
- Width mouth: 4.3
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