5880, Orvieto, Via S. Leonardo

Record number: 5880
Site: Orvieto
Building or zone: Via S. Leonardo
Roof element: Columen/mutulus plaques
Remarks: Fragment of sculpture preserving head of bearded man. Handmade, hollow. Restored. Th wall 1.8. Layer of purified clay on surface. Long locks pulled back at side of head and knotted together at back. Scar form opening in top of head for meniskos.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 160, no. I:2, Pl. 61:197; La civiltà degli Etruschi 1985, p. 270, 10.15.2; Gens New York 1991, pp. 271-273, no. 6.4; Stopponi 2003, pp. 240-243, fig. 5
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Gens antiquissima Italiae. Antichità dall'Umbria a New York
I templi e l'architettura templare
La civiltà degli Etruschi
Type of decoration: Bearded man
Current Collection: Museo Nazionale
Mouldmade: no
Height: 15
Width: 9
MPD: 12.5
Clay: 7.5YR 7/4
Paint: Red skin 7.5R 4/8. Brown and gold hair and beard 7.5YR 5/4.
Height face: 11.4
Distance outer eyes: 5.4
Width nose bottom: 1.6
Width mouth: 1.8

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