ID | 122 |
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Images | |
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 | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Museum of London |
Ref No | 01991 |
M/F | Female |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Minerva |
Aliases | Matrona, Vesta |
Bearded | No |
Attributes | Missing |
Attribute description | Spear and shield |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Peplos |
Drapery | Yes |
Condition | Missing head and right arm |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 42.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Fleischer 1967, no 28; Boucher 1973, no 155-9; Menzel 1966, no 60+61; Faider-Feytmans 1979, no. 75, pl. 44 |
References | Pitts 1979, 71 no 102 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Simple rendering, deep grooves represent drapery, particularly below the waist. Large right hand like a mitten. Proportions not right as the shoulders are broad the waist long and narrow. Hole drilled through vertically - not original? Two broad bands of drapery wrapped around from left shoulder to waist with second lightly lower reaching to the right knee. Could she have held a shield? The angle appears wrong. |
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