Frieze
Sima
Acroterion
MS1832
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS1832 |
Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Griffin |
Description | Preserves protome (?) only of griffin, minus wings, legs, ears and knob. End of beak abraded. A few traces of paint. Mouth wide open with hollow opening into neck. Head erect; S-curve to neck. Eyes swollen and bulbous, framed in circular groove. Paint white for basic areas of wing-feathers; red for neck and breast feathers with applied white delineating feathers, which point upward. Terracotta coarse, construction heavy. Clay gray-buff with large black and white micaceous temper. |
Height | 22.5 cm |
Width | 13 cm |
Thickness | 12.7 cm |
Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
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