1480, Falerii Veteres/Civita Castellana, Lo Scasato

Record number: 1480
Site: Falerii Veteres/Civita Castellana
Building or zone: Lo Scasato
Position: Pediment
Roof element: Pedimental sculpture
Remarks: Hollow, handmade, Young male head with thick clumps of curly locks on right side of head & scars of locks detached from skull. On left forehead & cheek, finely incised hair strands. Deeply set eyes with sharply edged upper eyelid. Th wall 1.8-2.2, plus hair 5.7
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, p. 128, No. I:4; Comella 1993c, p. 111, G5, pl. 35b
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples. Author: Andrén, A.. Place of publication: Lund/Leipzig. Publication Date: 1939-1940
Le terrecotte architettoniche del santuario dello Scasato à Falerii (scavi 1886-1887). Author: Comella, A.M.. Place of publication: Perugia. Publication Date: 1993
Type of decoration: Young male head
Last Recorded Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Mouldmade: no
Height: 16.6
Width: 14.1
MPD: 10
Clay: 10YR 7/4
Paint: Red-brown skin 2.5YR 5/4
Condition: 3 joining fragments
Distance outer eyes: 7.4
Width nose bottom: 2.5

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