1151, Capua

Record number: 1151
Site: Capua
Position: Eaves
Roof element: Antefixes, heads
Remarks: Antefix plaque with Gorgon head in relief, surrounded by strigil shell frame with raised edges around tongues/inner roll ending in volutes with round eyes. Below head & shell, recessed bottom border. On back, vertical ridge rising above small cover tile
Bibliography: Serra 1934, pp. 5 & 13 top row, right
Publication record: Il R. Museo Artistico Industriale di Roma
Type of decoration: Gorgoneion with strigil shell frame
Current Collection: Museo dei Conservatori: M.A.I. 158
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 34.4
Width: `33.4
MPD: 6.4
Clay: 10YR 6/4
Paint: Cream slip 10YR 8/3, black on alternating strigil inner outlines, diagonal bands on roll, hair, brows & lids, pupils, alternating beard strands, bottom band across border, red-brown 10R 4/3 on alternating strigil inner outline & beard strands, lips & tongue, chiton top, alternating zigzags on base
Condition: Well-preserved including much paint
Convex strigil: yes
Height face: 11.5
Distance outer eyes: 8.9
Width nose bottom: 3.2
Width mouth: 6.8
Type shell: Strigil
Convex: yes
Height antefix base: 5.2
Width antefix base: 22
Outer H cover tile: 11
Outer W cover tile: 19

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