ID | 1039 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TL9924 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Essex |
Site | Colchester |
Site Name | St Mary's Hospital |
Site Type | Colonia |
Location Type | Temple 10 |
Context | Road surface L174 |
Context Quality | 3 |
Context Date | C2- early 3 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Caducei (1038, 1040) , Mercury (1041), priestess (1042) |
Ref No | SF 1243 |
Form | Votive |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Caduceus |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 57.00 |
Parallels | Uley (706) |
References | Crummy 2006, 60 and 67, fig. 29 no 2 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Caduceus made from two entwined pieces of wire. The terminals have rudimentary moudlings to suggest snake heads, and one has an incised eye on one side; random grooves hint at markings or scales (Crummy 67) |
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