Menu
Search
Main SiteGandhara ConnectionsVase Corpus (CVA Online)
Search

5657, Orvieto, Sporadic

  • Record number: 5657
  • Site: ORVIETO
  • Building or zone: SPORADIC
  • Roof element: ANTEFIXES, HEADS
  • Comparanda: ANDRÉN 1940, NO. I:1 FROM CANNICELLA NECROPOLIS AND NO. I:6 FROM THE CAMPO DELLA FIERA AT ORVIETO ARE IDENTICAL.
  • Remarks: FEMALE HEAD ANTEFIX. BACK OF HEAD DEEPLY HOLLOWED WITH FINGER MARKS IN ROUND DEPRESSION, WITH HOLLOWED CHIN BELOW. W ENCIRCLING BAND 1.8. SCAR FROM SQUARE STRUT.
  • Bibliography: VAN BUREN 1921A, P. 19, (IV, TYPE XIV), PL. XII:3; ANDRÉN 1940, P. 194, NO. I:1, PL. 73:248, FIG. 31:F2
  • Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples. Author: Andrén, A.. Place of publication: Lund/Leipzig. Publication Date: 1939-1940
    Figurative terracotta revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. cent. B.C.. Author: Van Buren, E.D.. Place of publication: London. Publication Date: 1921
  • Type of decoration: FEMALE HEAD
  • Last Recorded Collection: Museo Civico
  • Mouldmade: YES
  • Height: 19.2
  • Width: 18.6
  • MPD: 9.4
  • Clay: 7.5YR 7/4
  • Paint: ON ENCIRCLING ROUNDED BAND, RED-BROWN DIAGONAL STRIPES WITH SMALL STRIATIONS AT EITHER SIDES. TOP OF DIADEM AND UPPER "L" BROWN AND HAIR.
  • Height face: 11.7
  • Distance outer eyes: 7
  • Width nose bottom: 2.8
  • Width mouth: 3.2
Image Image

Last updated 10/09/2012 15:08:00 by Nancy Winter. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/7FB72DA2-AEB1-4CD6-9159-D492AC6005C8

My photograph albums
Site map Copyright Accessibility Privacy statement Contact us
Gandhara Connections
Gandhara Connections on Facebook
Gandhara Connections on Twitter
Back to top