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Archaistic male mask-head, part of a panel or border of scroll ornament(?)
Painted terracotta
Height: 15cm
Museum number: M993
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 454
On display: Dome Area
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Curatorial note
An Archaistic male mask-head surrounded by a scroll pattern on either side, which was probably connected to similar decoration to form a slab-strip of ornament. Probably from an architectural cresting or revetment.1
1 (Group IV) [is Vermeule referring here to grouping in Jones or Rhoden?]; compare also The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, pl. 124. nos. 2 and especially no. 34.
1 (Group IV) [is Vermeule referring here to grouping in Jones or Rhoden?]; compare also The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, pl. 124. nos. 2 and especially no. 34.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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