Information
- Title
- Antefix with Gorgoneion
- Object Number
- y1931-13
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dates
- ca. 500–480 BCE
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 26.0 cm, d. at top with remnant of cover tile 4.0 cm (6 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Culture
- Greek
- Place made
- Europe, Apulia, Tarentum
- Materials
Purchased by the Museum from Ludwig Pollak, Rome, in 1931
- M. E. C., "Classical accessions: VI. Greek terracottas", Bulletin (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 17, no. 5 (May, 1922): p. 113-115., p. 115
- Gloria Ferrari and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Aspects of ancient greece: an exhibition organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 through December 30, 1979, (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1979). , no. 117 (illus.); p. 240-241
- Ancient Greece: life and art: an exhibition at the Newark Museum, (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1980)., checklist no. 57 (illus.)
- "What's on", Art newspaper 140 (Oct. 2003)., p. 10 (illus.)
- The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art: Princeton University Art Museum (11 Oct., 2003 – 18 Jan., 2004); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (22 Feb. – 16 May, 2004).
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