1444, Falerii Veteres/Civita Castellana, Sassi Caduti

Record number: 1444
Site: Falerii Veteres/Civita Castellana
Building or zone: Sassi Caduti
Roof element: Antefixes, full figure
Remarks: Fragment of Maenad torso in profile moving to right, holding patera/bowl; in front, wild boar (MPL 22.5), upside down, originally held by missing Silen. Back hollowed behind Maenad's chest & boar
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 109-111, No. I:3d, Pl. 37:126 right; Proietti 1980, p. 242, fig. 329
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Il Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Associated elements: 12470 + 12478, 12469, 12487, 12473, 12474, 12479, 12477, 12486
Type of decoration: Silen & Maenad
Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 12468
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 35.2
Width: 19.5
MPD: 7.5
Clay: 7.5YR 6/6
Paint: Cream slip for Maenad's skin, mantle 10YR 8/2, brown 7.5YR 6/4 for chiton, bowl, 10YR 6/4 boar's belly, purple-red 10R 4/4 wide band neard border on mantle, boar's bristle, dark brown 10R 5/1 boar's belly, top of back ridge, tail, black mantle edge, chiton neck
Condition: Finished left edge. Missing head & feet

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