Antefix Fragment

Title: Antefix Fragment
Inventory Number: A0401
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -50
To Date: 100
Description: Head of woman in tall ribbed kalathos flaring toward top, smooth roll of hair above forehead, long undulating locks down sides; features of face well articulated. Flanked by v volute, smaller loop above, larger below, separated by lotus bud; above symmetrical volute, members separated by lotus bud. Tracesof yellow, blue, orange and red paint
State of Preservation: Upper portion only pres., w all of one side volute and adjacent part of lower left face missing. Much of added paint worn off.
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 12.0 cm
Color: Clay body 7.5YR 7/4 (pink). Added colors: white c 5Y 8/1 (white); orange ca 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow); blue ca 5B 5/1 (bluish gray); red 10R 4/4 (weak red).
Notes: Slide Coll; Campana relief
Type: architecture
Material: fired clay