Object: A 642
Inventory Number: A 642
Section Number: Τ 329
Title: Antefix Fragment: Plastic
Category: Architecture Terracotta
Description: Broken away above (slightly) and below.
An antefix (?) in the form of a human mask, broken away below the eyes, with two long rows of curls across the forehead; eyes and eyebrows exaggeratedly large.
Rather clean pinkish to buff clay. Buff slip, red glaze for hair and details.
Keyword: drama
Context: Late Roman fill in north wall trench of Kappa building.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 20/6
Negatives: Leica
Dimensions: P.H. 0.145; W. 0.127; Th. 0.06
Material: Terracotta
Date Of Discovery: 16 March 1936
Section: Τ
Grid: Τ:20/ΙΗ
Longitude: 23.723012
Latitude: 37.974236
Bibliography: Hesperia 39 (1970), p. 138, no. F 5, pl. 38.