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TERRACOTTA ANTEFIX, С. 480 ВСЕ. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN The Sabine town of Antemnæ stood at the point where the Anio river flowed into the Tiber. It was thought by the ancient Romans to be older than Rome itself, and its main religious building was a temple to the goddess Juno Sospita, a quite different and bloodier divinity than the Greek Hera and effectively a different goddess than Juno Regina, wife of Jupiter. She is often depicted wearing a goatskin cloak with its horned hood and ears, rather as Hercules is shown wearing a lionskin or leonté. In this broken antefix from her temple at Antemnæ we can see these characteristics, as well as the painted decoration that shows a red and black checkerboard pattern on the curve between the horns of her cloak. This comes from a cast and closely resembles a similar antefix found on the Palatine.

This splendid terracotta #antefix in medium #relief is my offering for #ReliefWednesday this week. It shows #JunoSospita, a terrifying huntress divinity of the Latial peoples, and comes from the ruins of #Antemnæ, one of the #Sabine towns whose women were taken by #Romulus. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ANTEFIX OF TYPHON, C6 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN This spectacular painted terracotta antefix comes from an archaic temple in Gabii, a site 18 km east along the via Prenestina which had been an independent Latial town until it was conquered by the Romans under the last legendary king, Tarquinius Superbus. This antefix was found in a destruction level more or less contemporary with the foundation of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE, so it may be slightly older than the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. It represents the ur-monster Typhon, child of Gaia and Tartarus, utterly terrifying, born to punish the gods for the destruction of the Giants. His numerous progeny included the Sphinx and Cerberus. Here he looks very humanoid, with a black-bearded face, huge bat ears, a hairy torso, and wings.

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the town of #Gabii, 18 km east of #Rome, where this splendid #antefix was found. This is #Typhon, vengeful son of Mother Earth and enemy of the #Olympian gods, done in a #Latial style identical to work found from the same period in Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ANTEFIX WITH AFRICAN FACE, 525-475 BCE. PALAZZO CIAMPOLI, TAORMINA In the ancient Greek city of Tauromenion on the coast of Sicily facing Calabria, the monumental centre consisted of a large rectangular agora surrounded on three sides by important municipal buildings and on the fourth by a broad staircase leading up to another rectangular space on with four temples facing toward the agora. This strange, rather frightening terracotta face may have belonged to the bouleterion or city council hall. It's an antefix made from a mold, and its high cheekbones and thick, slightly parted lips curved in a smile resemble other examples of C6 BCE heads which represent Sub-Saharan African men. His broad, flat nose has been broken off, contributing to the "otherness" of the face, which was once painted. But it is an open question whether Africans were alien "others" in this cosmopolitan city, open to trade. He may just represent one of many people governed by the city council.

For a belated #ReliefWednesday as I wait in #Catania airport for my flight to #Rome, my smile eerily resembles that of this #terracotta #antefix from a civic building in the ancient #Greek centre of #Tauromenion, today's #Taormina. It was found buried beneath the #Roman baths.#AncientBluesky 🏺

Antefixes from Capua, dating to the 6th century BC. Lots of variety!
#ancienthistory #capua #antefix

MAENADs HEAD
#Etruscan #Antefix
Fr. #Cerveteri
400-300BC
Terracotta
#BritishMuseum #London | BM
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VULCA. MEDUSA ANTEFIX, C. 510 CE. MUSEO NAZIONALE ETRUSCO DI VILLA GIULIA This truly terrifying antefix is a masterpiece of terracotta Etruscan art. It comes from the Portonaccio temple sanctuary of Menrva, the Etruscan predecessor of Minerva, at Veii, in the same complex as the famous Apollo of Veii, one of the treasures of the Villa Giulia. Apollo and Hercules are battling on the pediment, and both have been ascribed to the sculptor Vulca, along with the roof antefixes, this one included, though the museum now more cautiously describes the artist as the "Master of Apollo". Here, within a sort of stylised scallop shell that regularises the profile of the antefix, is the frightening face of the Gorgon Medusa, very much the monstrous fanged leering monster of archaic art, and nothing like the beautiful tragic woman with snakes in her hair of later Greek and Roman depictions. Other antefixes contained Maenad and Silenus heads. But this astounding piece is full of invention and skill, with much of its original polychromy intact.

For #ReliefWednesday we're being scared off by a magnificent #antefix from the roof of the gigantic temple of #Minerva at #Veii just north of #Rome. The #sculptor is thought to be #Vulca, also author of the first statue of #Capitoline #Jupiter. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

ETRUSCAN ANTEFIXES
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Apollo
6BC
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Alatri
3BC
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Mercury
6BC
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