234, Caere

Record number: 234
Site: Caere
Roof element: Antefixes, full figure
Comparanda: Cerveteri Mus.Naz. 16394
Remarks: High relief. Silen wearing lion-skin cap, knotted below beard. H head 12. Shell of thick convex strigils Th 2.7, with depressed channel down middle & recessed narrow separation (W ca. 0.7). Hole for meniskos
Bibliography: Poulsen 1966, p. 33; Andrén 1940, pp. 34-35, No. II:13, Pl. 10:33; Christiansen & Winter 2010, pp. 94-97, no. 43
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Etruria I. Architectural terracottas and painted wall plaques, pinakes c. 625-200 BC.Catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Den Etruskiske Samling
The Caprifico roof in its wider context
Type of decoration: Seated Silen
Current Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: HIN 51 (H.188)
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 29
Width: 25
Clay: 7.5YR 6/6
Paint: Red 10R 5/4, skin 5YR 5/6, black
Condition: Missing base, left side & part of right of shell
Height strigil: 4.6
Width strigil: 2.2-2.4
Type shell: Strigils
Height strigil: 4.6
Width strigil: 2.2-2.4
Inner H cover tile: 10.1
Outer H cover tile: 12
Inner W cover tile: 13.6
Outer W cover tile: 17.6

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