6537, Veii, Portonaccio sanctuary
- Record number: 6537
- Site: Veii
- Building or zone: Portonaccio sanctuary
- Roof element: Antefixes, heads
- Comparanda: Peplos kore, Cristofani 1978, p. 96, Fig. 59
- Remarks: Female head antefix wearing tall diadem, disk earrings. Twisted strands of hair. Cover tile mounted at center of head with 8.4 cm overhang.
- Bibliography: Santangelo 1952, p. 159, fig. 27; Winter 1978, p. 40, n. 28, pl. 16.1; Riis 1981, p. 44, 8 J; Santuari d'Etruria 1985, pp.101-102, 5.1.B.2; Winter 2009a, p. 348, 5.C.3.b, fig. 5.13, Ill. 5.8.3; Belelli Marchesini in Tetti di terracotta 2011a, p. 284, pl. XII.e
- Publication record: Archaic architectural terracottas decorated with human heads
Etruscan types of heads
Santuari d'Etruria
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Tetti di terracotta: La decorazione architettonica fittile tra Etruria e Lazio in età arcaica. Atti delle giornate di studio, Sapienza-Università di Roma, 25 marzo e 25 ottobre 2010
Veio. Santuario "di Apollo". Scavi fra il 1944 e il 1949 - Type of decoration: Female head wearing tall diadem, disk earrings
- Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: VP 282
- Mouldmade: yes
- Height: 23.2
- Width: 17.8
- MPD: 9.8
- Clay: 7.5YR 6/4
- Height face: 11.7
- Distance outer eyes: 7.5
- Width nose bottom: 2.9
- Width mouth: 3
- Inner H cover tile: 6.4
- Outer H cover tile: 8.7
- Inner W cover tile: 7.7
- Outer W cover tile: 11.3
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