tintinnabulums:Antefixes with the heads of a maenad and of Silenus. Cerveteri, Jacobini excavations,
tintinnabulums:Antefixes with the heads of a maenad and of Silenus. Cerveteri, Jacobini excavations, 1870. 4th century B.C., terracotta. Gregorian Etrusan Museum. (x)[id: two photos of the antefixes described above. both antefixes have wide nimbuses decorated with alternating lotus flower palmettes on different color backgrounds: black for the maenad and red for silenus. the maenad is a pale woman wearing a diadem with rosettes and two large cluster-shaped earrings. silenus, wearing an ivy crown, has red skin, a long beard, wide-set eyes, furrowed brow, bared teeth, and large ears. end id] -- source link
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