An Etruscan Terracotta Antefix, ca. 6th century BCE Coins communicating the wearer’s piety

communicating the wearer’s piety

to the left

acquired in London between 1978 and 1982

certain standardized systems of shape and decoration were adhered to

tweezers were often cast into elaborate forms such as shells

An Etruscan Terracotta Antefix, ca. 6th century BCE Coins communicating the wearer’s pietyIn the form of a half sized head of a man with black curls along the forehead and fine, pointed features. The delicately outlined almond shaped eyes with dark pupils, high arched brows, high cheekbones, pointed nose, the full lips set in an archaic smile. During the Archaic period, the workshops at Caere (modern Cerveteri) in southern Etruria produced a large number of architectural terracottas (friezes, covering plaques, acroteria, and antefixes)