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L'Année du Cheval s'annonce et avec elle, une très longue série équine de photos (sur plusieurs jours) !

Ici des chevaux archéologiques :

Louvre-Lens, expo "Etrusques" - Acrotère - Caere (Etrurie) , 475 av J-C.

Médinet Habou (Egypte)

voir 1 - mors en bronze - Caere, 750 av J-C.

Louvre-Lens, expo "Pharaons, superstars !" - amulettes-scarabées avec le cartouche de Thoutmosis III - XIII-Xe s. av. J-C.

voir 1

voir 2

Louvre-Lens, expo "L'Histoire commence en Mésopotamie" - revêtement de porte en bronze - Imgur Enlil, époque Néo-Assyrienne, sous Salmanazar III, 840avJC

Etruscan antefix

Caere

5th century BCE

British Museum

London, July 2022

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Painted Etruscan Antefixes - part I

An antefix (from Latin antefigere, to fasten before) is a vertical block which terminates and conceals the covering tiles of a tiled roof. It also serves to protect the join from the elements.

During the Archaic period, antefixes were produced in great numbers throughout Etruria, especially in Caere, southern Etruria (modern-day Cerveteri). Accordingly, many examples have survived. These painted terracotta objects were commonly used on the eaves of a roof, in order to protect the end tiles from the elements. They also formed part of the architectural decoration of buildings and were believed to banish bad luck.

Antefix with a head of Silenus and anthemia nimbus / Cerveteri, Lazio, Italy / 4th century BCE

Antefix with a Maenad head / Portonaccio Temple at Veii, Italy / 510 BCE

Antefix with the head of Silenus / Cerveteri, Italy / 480 BCE

Antefix with female head with nimbus / Lanuvium, late-Archic temple of Juno Sospita / 5th century BCE

Antefix with the head of Silenus / Italy / 4th century BCE

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5