3771, Tarquinia, Urban area south of Romanelli Gate

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Record number: 3771
Site: Tarquinia
Building or zone: Urban area south of Romanelli Gate
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Comparanda: 5045, 5046, 5049, 2595, 2595bis, Philadelphia, University Museum Inv. MS 1823 or 1828(?).
Remarks: Acheloos head antefix preserves all of the head, none of the frame except for a torus across the top of the head. The hair across the forehead falls in vertical strands ending in curls, covering most of the forehead, flanked at either side by knobs probably representing horns, and erect animal ears. The eyes are large and bulbous with black lids and red-brown irises. The cheeks are mostly covered by the beard that falls in neatly sculpted flat strands, curving towards the center at the bottom. A long moustache frames the upper lip and reaches almost to the side edges of the beard. Below the mouth is a pappus, overlapping the main beard. Rounded cover tile attached at bottom of plaque. Above, behind hair, hollowed slightly.
Bibliography: Romanelli 1948, p. 238, no. 5, fig. 11d; Andrén 1940, p. 67, no. I:5; Cataldi 1993, p. 214, no. 40, fig. 31; Scavo nello scavo 2004, pp. 78-79, no. I.e.10; Winter 2006c, p.135, fig. 22
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Le terrecotte architettoniche arcaiche di Tarquinia: scambi e modelli
Scavo nello scavo. Gli Etruschi non visti
Tarquinia. Scavi e ricerche nell'area della città
Terrecotte arcaiche e tardo-arcaiche da Tarquinia
Type of decoration: Acheloos head
Current Collection: Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 2831
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 15.5
Width: 14.1
Clay: 10YR 7/3
Paint: Black hair, eyes, beard. Brown-red irises 2.5YR 5/6. White skin 10YR 7/3.
Height face: 11.2
Distance outer eyes: 5.8
Width nose bottom: 2.3
Width mouth: 2.6
Inner H cover tile: 7.4
Outer H cover tile: 9
Thickness tile: 1.7

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