ID | 771 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SX9292 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Devon |
Site | Exeter |
Site Name | Valiant Soldier, Holloway Street |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Fortress |
Context | Cremation VS362 |
Context Quality | 3 |
Site Date | C1 |
Context Date | c.64+ |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Coins of Nero (AD 61-8) |
Location | Exeter City Museum |
M/F | Female |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Victory |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Wings |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Chiton |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Right arm and tips of wings missing, pockmarked from cremations |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 70.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Salvatore 2001, 133, pl 14; Ling 1991, 257, fig 116, no 102 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | The dress is a Doric chiton girded at the waist; the overfold billows round and behind the hips, as does the skirt around the legs. . . The lower part of the statuette contracts almost to a point, and the hollowed rear shows that only a frontal viewpoint was intended (Ling) |
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