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Roman tile-end or antefix
Terracotta, cast from a mould
Height: 15.5cm
Width: 15cm
Width: 15cm
Museum number: M810
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 thin fillet, below which is a moulding comprised of four reels followed by a large bead (repeated), this antefix is in the shape of a stylized honeysuckle palmette. This tile-end is comparable to an example from Ardea in the Villa Giulia, Rome (see Andrén, Architectural Terracottas from Etrusco-Italie Temples, pl. 136, no. 481).
Unrecorded
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