JJ-107 CB 18.5 Trench B. Architectural Terracottas: the Archaic and Post-Archaic Period. Later Archaic Revetment Plaques. Fragment of female head antefix, lower left corner. H. 6.2, W. 6.3, gr. Th. 5.6. Clay is coarse with black and red inclusions, the latter larger, and some mica. Dark red (10R 4/6-4/8), surface smoothed with no traces of slip or paint. Lower left corner of female head antefix, lower border preserved, with lower termination of curls and part of neck. The twisted strands of hair delimiting the face is similar to that of the well-preserved antefix from Velletri: Andrén 1940, pp. 413-414, pl. 129:453; idem 1974, p. 4, pl. 3, fig. 9; Grande Roma 1990, pp. 204-205, cat. 8.6.24, pl. XXI; Winter 1978, p. 38, pl. 15.3; Riis 1981, p. 44 no. 5J, pl. V; etc.; Rome – S. Omobono, phase II: Sommella Mura 1977, pp. 91-94, figs. 16, 19; Knoop 1987, p.33, p. 35 n. 121. For the type see also Cristofani 1987, pp. 98-99, figs. 22-23. The fragment from Cisterna-Pometia (?), Melis and Quilici Gigli 1872, pp. 224-225 no. 17, pl. 50 is from a somewhat similar but not identical type of antefix. For a lateral sima of the type described above in JJ-104, and discussed by Damgaard Andersen 1990, pp. 83-86. 550-525 BC
Descriptions are published in: Nielsen, I., and Poulsen, B., (eds.), 1992: The Temple of Castor and Pollux I, Roma. Bilde, P. G., and Poulsen, B., (eds.), 2008: The Temple of Castor and Pollux II.1* & II.1**, Roma. Slej, K., and Cullhed, M., (eds.), 2008: The Temple of Castor and Pollux II.2* & II.2**, Roma
