[Link to Bibliography]
| ID | 120 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TQ3079 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Greater London |
| Site | London? |
| Site Type | Large town |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | Maybe |
| Place of manufacture | Britain or Gaul |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1853,0502.16 |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Minerva |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Crested helmet |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Patera and missing ?spear |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Peplos, aegis |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | cloak |
| Condition | Missing lower left arm, worn |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 75.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Boucher 1973, no 154; Rolland 1965, no 67+70; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1967, no 40; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, no 60 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 100, pl 19; Toynbee 1964, 81; Green 1976, 224, no 58; Lindgren 1980, 90, pl 60 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | curious rectangular-shaped aegis (Toynbee). Good attention to detail but not very well carried out. Arms too large for the body. Right hand extremely large, covers the back of the patera, fingers depicted by deep grooves. The drapery falls in thick folds, no feet visible.The face is fairly crudely depicted with wedge shaped nose, slit mouth and the eyes are not level but the eyebrows are depicted. |
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