5359
- Record number: 5359
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Comparanda: Orvieto
- Remarks: Silen head antefix with floral shell frame. Finished side edge at lower left side. Back hollowed, deeply and smoothly, behind head . Shell deeply curved. Scar from cover tile near bottom, thick, somewhat squared. Said to have been in Collection Virgi 1947-1968, then London art market 1982. Listed in "Acquisitions 1983" of Getty Museum Journal 12 (1984), p. 255.
- Type of decoration: Silen head wearing wreath
- Current Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum: 83.AD.211.5
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 33
- Width: 29
- MPD: 8.9
- Clay: 10YR 7/2
- Paint: Red skin, inner ground between flowers and roll, neck, lower squares on base, alternating lotus leaves, palmette heart 7.5R 4/6. Black outer ground around flowers and shell edge, beard, eyelids, brows, pupil, upper squares on base meander. Blue palmette arc, lotus calyx, horizontal band tying tendrils, wreath 5BG 6/1. Gold-brown moustache(?) and central beard 7.5YR 6/6. Cream rounded band ending in volutes, palmette leaves, alternating lotus leaves, base ground(?).
- Height head: 13
- Distance outer eyes: 6.4
- Width nose bottom: 2.3
- Width mouth: 2.7
- Type shell: Floral
- Width shell: 9.4
- Height antefix base: 2.8
- Inner H cover tile: 6.5
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