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Nemi Studies
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breast. There is a closely related
type in the Glyptotek’s Helbig
collection, an antefix from Cam-
pania, H. 39 (fig. 3) (29), on
which the raised left wing, the
lower part of the goddess, and the
head of one lion are preserved,
and on which it is to be seen more
distinctly than on the Nemi ante-
fix that she holds the lion by one
fore-paw. Still nearer is an ante-
fix fragment from Capua (30),
whereas another of the same prov-
enance, in the British Museum,
has an Artemis who is entirely
human right down to the feet (31).
The Swedish excavations in Ardea, Latium, recovered a very fragmentary
antefix with the same motif, though it is younger, 4th-3rd century B. C.,
and it occasioned Andren to enumerate similar antefixes of Late Classical or
Early Hellenistic style from Campania, Latium and South Etruria (32).
Our type, as Andren also points out, is earlier, Late Archaic, about 480 B. C.,
a little later than the beautiful Etruscan kore in the Ny Carlsberg Glypto-
tek (33). Consequently, we may venture to describe its style, as also the later
development of it, as common to Etruscan, Latin and Campanian art. If
our antefix adorned the temple of Diana, which indeed is quite probable, this
provides us with proof of the existence of a temple already in the beginning
of the 5th century. The specimen at Nottingham seems merely to be one of
many; at any rate, mention is made of the fact that in 1886 there were similar
Fig. 5. Acroterion from Cervetri. Ny Carlsberg H. 248.
(29) Bildertafeln des etruskischen Museums
der Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, p. 18.
(30) H. Koch, Dachterrakotten aus Cam-
panien, pl. XV 5 and p. 67.
(31) Koch, 1. c., pl. XVI, 2 and p. 65.
(32) Corolla Arch. Gustavo Adolpho dedicata
{Skrifter utg. qf Svenska Inst, i Rom, II), p.
107, A. 19, pl. II, fig. 20.
(33) Frederik Poulsen, Die Antike,
VIII, 1932, p. 90 ff. and idem, Katalog over
antike Skulpturer (1940), No. 845.
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breast. There is a closely related
type in the Glyptotek’s Helbig
collection, an antefix from Cam-
pania, H. 39 (fig. 3) (29), on
which the raised left wing, the
lower part of the goddess, and the
head of one lion are preserved,
and on which it is to be seen more
distinctly than on the Nemi ante-
fix that she holds the lion by one
fore-paw. Still nearer is an ante-
fix fragment from Capua (30),
whereas another of the same prov-
enance, in the British Museum,
has an Artemis who is entirely
human right down to the feet (31).
The Swedish excavations in Ardea, Latium, recovered a very fragmentary
antefix with the same motif, though it is younger, 4th-3rd century B. C.,
and it occasioned Andren to enumerate similar antefixes of Late Classical or
Early Hellenistic style from Campania, Latium and South Etruria (32).
Our type, as Andren also points out, is earlier, Late Archaic, about 480 B. C.,
a little later than the beautiful Etruscan kore in the Ny Carlsberg Glypto-
tek (33). Consequently, we may venture to describe its style, as also the later
development of it, as common to Etruscan, Latin and Campanian art. If
our antefix adorned the temple of Diana, which indeed is quite probable, this
provides us with proof of the existence of a temple already in the beginning
of the 5th century. The specimen at Nottingham seems merely to be one of
many; at any rate, mention is made of the fact that in 1886 there were similar
Fig. 5. Acroterion from Cervetri. Ny Carlsberg H. 248.
(29) Bildertafeln des etruskischen Museums
der Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, p. 18.
(30) H. Koch, Dachterrakotten aus Cam-
panien, pl. XV 5 and p. 67.
(31) Koch, 1. c., pl. XVI, 2 and p. 65.
(32) Corolla Arch. Gustavo Adolpho dedicata
{Skrifter utg. qf Svenska Inst, i Rom, II), p.
107, A. 19, pl. II, fig. 20.
(33) Frederik Poulsen, Die Antike,
VIII, 1932, p. 90 ff. and idem, Katalog over
antike Skulpturer (1940), No. 845.