Antefix in form of Woman’s Head

Title: Antefix in form of Woman’s Head
Inventory Number: A0160
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Capua
From Date: -299
To Date: -200
Description: Face framed by loose thick ringlets above which broad rounded fillet with frame of drapery above; poorly articulated eyes and mouth, heavy chin and medium sized nose. Traces of white slip.
State of Preservation: Side and bottom edges chipped away; rear of top edge chipped off. Much chipping of projecting surfaces of hair, nose and chin, sporadic chipping elsewhere; considerable general wear of surface. Heavy circle of crackled white incrustation on hollow interior.
Height: 14.25 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Color: Clay body ca 10R 6/8 (light red); slip 10YR 8/1 (white); interior encrustation 5YR 8/1 (white).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: architecture
Material: fired clay