Palmette Antefix

Title: Palmette Antefix
Inventory Number: A0165
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -25
To Date: 100
Description: Five-leafed palmette w 4 outer leaves curved downward & inward below which butting rams’ heads, w eyes, horns and muzzle articulated, on bed of acanthus, ends of which rise in curving tendrils. Plain h band at base. At rear triangular cover tile protector.
State of Preservation: Top r edge chipped away, sporadic chipping of surface; end of cover tile protector broken off. Incrustation on upper back of palmette.
Height: 20.0 cm
Width: 16.0 cm
Color: Clay body ca 5YR 7/4 (pink); surface 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow); incrustation 5YR 6/1 (gray).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: architecture
Material: fired clay