The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta fragmentary gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Terracotta fragmentary gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)

Period:: Archaic
Date:: ca. 540 B.C.
Culture:: Greek
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: H. 5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) W. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.)
Classification:: Terracottas
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1910
Accession Number:: 10.210.46

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Description

This fragment is of the same type as 39.11.9 in this case and has been restored accordingly. The antefix is decorated with a gorgon's head.
Provenance

Said to be from Tarentum (Taranto)
References

E. Douglas Van Buren, Archaic Fictile Revetments in Sicily and Magna Graecia (1923), pp. 140-141, pl. XIV, fig. 57 (Tarentum).

Handbook of the Classical Collection 91917). p. 71.

Alexander, Christine. 1940. "Two Greek Terracottas." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 35(5): p. 108.

Richter, Gisela M.A. Handbook of the Greek Collection (1953), p. 30, note 14, pl. 19g.
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