Antefix with Head of the Satyr Silenus

Artist Unknown

Datecirca 450 BCE

MediumTerracotta and pigment

Dimensions12 3/8 × 11 ¾ × 4 ¾ in. (31.4 × 29.8 × 12.1 cm); (base): 1 9/16 × 10 1/16 × 1 9/16 in. (4 × 25.5 × 4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

Object numberG.77.20.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceProvenience unknown. [Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA]; sold to NCMA, 1977.Published References“Companion Exhibition: Art from the Classical World,” Virginia Museum Bulletin 39, no. 6 (February 1979), mentioned.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983),illus. (b-w) 48.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 20.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” December 14, 1978-January 28, 1979.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “Classical World,” January 22, 1979-January 1980.

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