An Etruscan Polychrome Terracotta Antefix, circa late 6th Century B.C. in the form of the head of a maenad, with long wavy hair, her oval face with slightly smiling mouth and narrow wide-set eyes beneath delicate finely arched eyebrows, and wearing disk earrings and diadem decorated with flowering vines (ivy?), her head surrounded by a nimbus of tongues and flanked by scrolls and palmettes. Height 10 1/2 in. 26.7 cm.
An Etruscan Polychrome Terracotta Antefix, circa late 6th Century B.C. in the form of the head of a maenad, with long wavy hair, her oval face with slightly smiling mouth and narrow wide-set eyes beneath delicate finely arched eyebrows, and wearing disk earrings and diadem decorated with flowering vines (ivy?), her head surrounded by a nimbus of tongues and flanked by scrolls and palmettes. Height 10 1/2 in. 26.7 cm.
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