4012, Civita Alba

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Record number: 4012
Site: Civita Alba
Position: Pediment
Roof element: Pedimental sculpture
Remarks: Pedimental sculpture, handmade in round, applied to plaques with nail holes. Shows sleeping woman with drapery drawn aside by missing satyr to right. Behind, maenad leaning on rock. To left satyr gesturing in surprise. Variant of group shown in Andrén 1940, no. I:1 or represents final union of Dionysus and Ariadne.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 299-300, no. I:3, Pl. 100:359; Sprenger & Bartoloni 1983, fig. 282; Pairault-Massa 1993a, fig. 12; Torelli 1993a, fig. 18
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Fictiles fabulae. Rappresentazione e romanizzazione nei cicli figurativi fittili repubblicani
The Etruscans: their history, art, and architecture
Type of decoration: Finding Ariadne(?) or final union of Ariadne and Dionysus
Current Collection: Museo Civico
Mouldmade: no
Height: 95
Width: 76

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