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3040, Veii, Portonaccio sanctuary

  • Record number: 3040
  • Site: Veii
  • Building or zone: Portonaccio sanctuary
  • Roof element: Acroteria, human statues
  • Remarks: Th wall 1.5. Herakles' upper chest with black tunic and brown lion-skin tied in front. Goes with smaller earlier Athena upper torso in museum.
  • Bibliography: Santangelo 1952, pp. 147-152; Colonna 1987b, p. 32, fig. 77; Colonna 1987d, pp. 435-437, fig. 22; Lulof 2000, pp. 209-210, fig. 3 left; Winter 2009a, pp. 377-378, 5.E.1.a, fig. 5.33, Ill. 5.16.1
  • Publication record: Archaic terracotta acroteria representing Athena and Herakles: manifestations of power in central Italy
    Il maestro dell'Ercole e della Minerva. Nuova luce sull'attività dell'officina veiente
    Note preliminari sui culti del santuario di Portonaccio à Veio
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
    Veio. Santuario "di Apollo". Scavi fra il 1944 e il 1949
  • Type of decoration: Herakles' upper chest
  • Current Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
  • Mouldmade: no
  • Height: 13.8
  • Width: 17
  • Clay: 10YR 7/3(?)
  • Paint: Red skin at neck 7.5R 4/2(?). Brown pelt 7.5YR 5/4.
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