Etruscan relief with gargoyle from an architectural... Lot 35

Etruscan relief with gargoyle from an architectural crown. 2nd century BC. H 38,5cm, W 54,2cm, D 23,5cm. Made of hand-modeled and coarsely whitewashed beige terracotta, with remnants of red painting especially on the upper ledge. On the front the busts of Heracles with lion scalp and club and his patron goddess Athena with three-bosomed helmet, aigis and lance, in between as gargoyle the head of the Erymanthian boar. At the back four firing holes. With TL analysis by Oxford Authentication! Small bumps for example at the upper and lower ledge, at the helmet bush of Athena, her right cheek as well as at the lion's scalp and club, otherwise intact. Formerly Swiss private collection, acquired for it on May 8, 1999 at Galleria Serodine, Ascona; previously in the collection of Vladimir Rosenbaum, Ascona (d. 1984).