ID | 206 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SJ4066 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cheshire |
Site | Chester |
Site Name | Commonhall Street |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Granaries |
Context | Pit in cellar I |
Context Quality | 2 |
Site Date | C2-3 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Eyes enamelled |
Other finds from site | None |
Location | Grovesnor Museum |
Ref No | 4.R.1970 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Bird |
Name | Owl |
Bearded | No |
Is an attribute of | Minerva |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 or 2 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 38.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Reinach 1894, no 324; Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 167 |
References | Green 1978, 52; Petch and Thomspon 1959, 56, pl Xa; Lloyd-Morgan 1977, 104, fig. 3-4 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Feathers incised, would have been attached to pedestal (see sheet for more details and parallels) |
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