ID | 680 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SP3315 |
Project type | Fieldwalking |
County | Oxfordshire |
Site | Ramsden |
Site Name | Brize Lodge Farm |
Site Type | Villa |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Ref No | HER PRN 12.388 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Bird |
Name | Dove |
Aliases | Eagle |
Bearded | No |
Is an attribute of | Venus, Cupid |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Feet missing |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 49.00 |
Parallels | Kirk 1949, Woodeaton no 4 |
References | Grew 1981, 344; Chambers 1981, 138, fig 39; Henig and Chambers 1984, 19-21, fig 1.1, pl 1 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Perhaps more likely a dove than eagle; belief in augury (Henig). |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012