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

Period:: Archaic
Date:: 6th century B.C.
Culture:: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: H.: 8 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (20.3 cm)
Classification:: Terracottas
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1926
Accession Number:: 26.60.73

This artwork is not on display

Description

The relief shows the face of a gorgon.
References

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1928. "Recent Accessions of the Classical Department." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 23(3): p. 82.
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What
Clay (23,658)

Terracotta (8,374)

Antefixes (50)
Where
Europe (150,115)

Greece (6,289)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,206)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,330)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Greek Art in the Archaic Period

Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.