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| Keywords: Etruscan - Antefix with Head of Silenus - Walters 48354.jpg An antefix is the decorative end of a roof tile This one depicts a balding Silenus a mythological creature that is half man half beast He has pointed goat's ears a fleshy face with a large bulbous nose and wears an animal-skin cloak knotted under his long beard Made in a mold it was originally framed in a shell-shaped plaque and painted red white and black century 4 BC terracotta paint cm 32 30 11 accession number 48 354 23608 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Cerveteri Italy Walters Art Museum license Etruscan art in the Walters Art Museum Etruscan antefixes from Italy Sculptures of Silenus | ||||
