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GALLERIA SUPERIORE VI. 47—VII
47. WINGED SATYRS AND HEAD OF AMMON (pi. 124).
.10 m. x -!g m. Only the r. side of the face of Ammon is preserved.
Middle of first century A. D.
Provenance unknown.
Von Rohden, p. yg, for arrangement see Taf. CIII. 2.
NOTE.—The following pieces figured or mentioned in Von Rohden are not now
in the Gallery.
Gorgoneion, Taf. XXXVI. 1.
Double-bodied Sphinx between Gorgoneia, Taf. LXII. 2.
VII. TERRA-COTTA PEDIMENTAL STATUES, ETC.
REFERENCES : Zzz//. (Dwz. vi (i8y8), p. 293. Deonna, iAzZzAr a<2
(1908), pp. 139 ff.
GROUP OF FIGURES REPRESENTING A SACRIFICIAL SCENE.
The series of terra-cottas described below were found in a very
fragmentary condition in the Via San Gregorio during drainage operations
in 1878. The record of their discovery gives no indication of the nature
of the building which they adorned nor their position upon it. Certain
inferences can, however, be drawn from the character of the remains
themselves. They consist of fragments
(1) of a .M77M over the pediment;
(2) of a small continuous frieze (?);
(3) of a series of figures, the largest almost life-size, the smallest
about two-thirds life-size.
The upper parts of the figures are worked in the round, the lower
parts in high relief against a flat background. The discovery of similar
groups at Civita Castellana (now in the Villa Giulia Museum), at Luni and
Talamone (in the Archaeological Museum at Florence) and elsewhere,
makes it highly probable that the figures formed part of a single group
which decorated the pediment of a temple to which the .sA?# and the
frieze fragments also belonged. The general arrangement of the various
parts of the decoration may be seen in the reconstruction of the temple
of Alatri in the Villa Giulia Museum and of the entablature of the temple
at Lanuvium in the British Museum, neither of which, however, are
correct in all particulars, cf. the reconstruction of the larger Temple at
Falerii Veteres (Civita Castellana) in A. A*. A. 7?. viii (1916), pp. iff.,
pi. 1; see also Rizzo in AW/, (bw. xxxviii (1910-11), Az' M7Z Aw/AAo
/z//z'A A AAV, and Wiegand, G/p^AA/y^ Text II, pp. 1 ff.
The figures preserved are two females, one seated (no. 1), the other
standing (no. 2), a warrior in armour (no. 3), a draped male figure
(no. 4), three other male figures wearing only a loin-cloth (nos. g-y),
two male left feet (nos. 8 and 9). They are all worked entirely with
the modelling tool. The coarse clay of which they are made is
covered with a thin coating of clay very finely sifted of a yellowish
colour which serves to represent the flesh of the female figures and parts
of the drapery of the others. The craftsmanship of this group
is better than that of the pediments at Florence—the material is
GALLERIA SUPERIORE VI. 47—VII
47. WINGED SATYRS AND HEAD OF AMMON (pi. 124).
.10 m. x -!g m. Only the r. side of the face of Ammon is preserved.
Middle of first century A. D.
Provenance unknown.
Von Rohden, p. yg, for arrangement see Taf. CIII. 2.
NOTE.—The following pieces figured or mentioned in Von Rohden are not now
in the Gallery.
Gorgoneion, Taf. XXXVI. 1.
Double-bodied Sphinx between Gorgoneia, Taf. LXII. 2.
VII. TERRA-COTTA PEDIMENTAL STATUES, ETC.
REFERENCES : Zzz//. (Dwz. vi (i8y8), p. 293. Deonna, iAzZzAr a<2
(1908), pp. 139 ff.
GROUP OF FIGURES REPRESENTING A SACRIFICIAL SCENE.
The series of terra-cottas described below were found in a very
fragmentary condition in the Via San Gregorio during drainage operations
in 1878. The record of their discovery gives no indication of the nature
of the building which they adorned nor their position upon it. Certain
inferences can, however, be drawn from the character of the remains
themselves. They consist of fragments
(1) of a .M77M over the pediment;
(2) of a small continuous frieze (?);
(3) of a series of figures, the largest almost life-size, the smallest
about two-thirds life-size.
The upper parts of the figures are worked in the round, the lower
parts in high relief against a flat background. The discovery of similar
groups at Civita Castellana (now in the Villa Giulia Museum), at Luni and
Talamone (in the Archaeological Museum at Florence) and elsewhere,
makes it highly probable that the figures formed part of a single group
which decorated the pediment of a temple to which the .sA?# and the
frieze fragments also belonged. The general arrangement of the various
parts of the decoration may be seen in the reconstruction of the temple
of Alatri in the Villa Giulia Museum and of the entablature of the temple
at Lanuvium in the British Museum, neither of which, however, are
correct in all particulars, cf. the reconstruction of the larger Temple at
Falerii Veteres (Civita Castellana) in A. A*. A. 7?. viii (1916), pp. iff.,
pi. 1; see also Rizzo in AW/, (bw. xxxviii (1910-11), Az' M7Z Aw/AAo
/z//z'A A AAV, and Wiegand, G/p^AA/y^ Text II, pp. 1 ff.
The figures preserved are two females, one seated (no. 1), the other
standing (no. 2), a warrior in armour (no. 3), a draped male figure
(no. 4), three other male figures wearing only a loin-cloth (nos. g-y),
two male left feet (nos. 8 and 9). They are all worked entirely with
the modelling tool. The coarse clay of which they are made is
covered with a thin coating of clay very finely sifted of a yellowish
colour which serves to represent the flesh of the female figures and parts
of the drapery of the others. The craftsmanship of this group
is better than that of the pediments at Florence—the material is