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5361, Capua(?)

  • Record number: 5361
  • Site: Capua(?)
  • Roof element: Antefixes, heads
  • Remarks: Gorgoneion antefix with strigil shell frame. H face-beard tip 14.8. Cover tile on back, top painted brown.
  • Bibliography: Wohl 1996
  • Publication record: A Campanian Gorgon antefix. Author: Wohl, B.. Journal and volume number: J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 24. Publication Date: 1996. Pages: 13-20
  • Type of decoration: Gorgoneion
  • Last Recorded Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Mouldmade: yes
  • Height: 27
  • Width: 36.8
  • MPD: 12.5
  • Clay: 2.5YR 5/6
  • Paint: Beige slip, thick and fine. Brown alternating inner strigil outline, alternating diagonal bands on rounded moulding, hair, alternating beard strands, upper band and boxes on base, eyes and lashes, volute eyes 2.5YR 5/2. Red-brown alternating outlines, diagonal bands, ear outline, mouth and tongue, bottom line and boxes, dot 2.5YR 4/4. Plaque back and edges painted cream.
  • Distance outer eyes: 11.3
  • Width nose bottom: 4.2
  • Width mouth: 9.4
  • Height antefix base: 4
  • Width antefix base: 31
  • Inner H cover tile: 18.5
  • Outer H cover tile: 24.7
  • Inner W cover tile: 15
  • Outer W cover tile: 28
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