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Fragment of an antique terracotta tile-end or antefix
117-138 AD
Probably Hadrianic
Probably Hadrianic
Terracotta
Height: 10.5cm
Width: 18cm
Width: 18cm
Museum number: M809
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 481
On display: Dome Area
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Above a thick fillet protrudes an Ammon head from which springs and rises honeysuckle palmettes in the conventional pattern.
While it seems unlikely that the cresting plaque Soane M428 (Vermeule 475) comes from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, an antefix such as this one may well have come from that site1 .
1 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 243f, figs. 384 f.
While it seems unlikely that the cresting plaque Soane M428 (Vermeule 475) comes from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, an antefix such as this one may well have come from that site1 .
1 P. Gusman, La Villa impériale de Tibur (Villa Hadriana), Paris, 1904, p. 243f, figs. 384 f.
Provenance
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