| Object Number |
MS1822 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Etruscan |
| Provenience |
Italy | Etruria | Tarquinia |
| Date Made |
400 BCE to 300 BCE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Terracotta |
| Iconography |
Male Head |
| Description |
Male head; from a shell antefix, most of the shell missing. Bottom edge preserved. Frontal face. Mustache, the ends curving down beside lips. Curly hair and curly beard. An undulating lock of hair at each side. Edge of veil (?) frames face. Red on neck and some on background at right. Back plain, hollow in area of face, with a complete buttress and part of the cover tile. |
| Height |
21 cm |
| Width |
25.4 cm |
| Depth |
20 cm |
| Credit Line |
Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| de Grummond, Elizabeth. "Maenads and Meaning: Antefixes from Tarquinia in American Collections." The Bulletin. The University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology XIII. (2001): 7-. See: fig. 3, figs. 14-15 |
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| Goldberg, Marilyn. "Tarquinia Antefixes.." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 26, no. 1. (1983): 6-13. See: p. 11 |
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| Andren, Arvid. Architectural Terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples. Leipzig: Lund, C.W.K. Gleerup, 1940. Page/Fig./Plate: 516 See: p. 69, pl. II, 4 |
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| Luce, Stephen B. "A Group of Architectural Terra-cottas from Corneto." American Journal of Archaeology 25. (1921): 266-278. See: figs. 3 and 6 |
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| Luce, Stephen B. "Etruscan Shell-Antefixes in the University Museum, Philadelphia." American Journal of Archaeology 24, no. 4. (1920): 352-369. |
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| Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: p. 157, no. 253c |
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