Antefix in form of Woman’s Head

Item

Title
Antefix in form of Woman’s Head
Inventory Number
A0159
From Date
-299
To Date
-100
Description
Head with melon hair-do rising from forehead to fillet tied in Hercules-knot with horizontal braid above. Brows, lids, and pupils articulated; prominent nose above poorly fashioned open lips; fairly broad surfaces of cheeks, prominent rounded chin. Traces of white slip all over, traces of black paint on hair.
State of Preservation
Broken off at neck and at back of sides of head; top of braid apparently chipped off in use and broken surface roughly ground off in broad concavity. Some pitting and cracking of surface.
Height
15.5 cm
Base Diameter
10.5 cm
Width
10.6 cm
Color
Clay body 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown); white slip ca 10YR 8/1 (white); black paint 10YR 2/1 (black).
Notes
Slide Coll
Type
architecture
Material
fired clay

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