Antefix
MS1803
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Caere
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1803 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Caere |
| Locus | Temple |
| Date Made | 499-300 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Female Head |
| Description | Part of a set of antefixes with shell-shaped back-drops came from a large temple in the countryside of Caere (Cerveteri). Female heads alternated with those of satyrs along the edge of the roof. The satyrs have skin painted red to show that they are males, while the females have skin painted either white or black. Both maenads wear the large earrings fashionable in the 5th-4th centuries BC. |
| Height | 46 cm |
| Width | 50.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 1092 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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