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| ID | 124 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL9925 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Essex |
| Site | Colchester |
| Site Type | Colonia |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Date | C1-2? |
| Object Period | 2 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local? |
| Location | Colchester Castle Museum |
| Ref No | COLEM 1925.5062 |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Minerva |
| Bearded | No |
| Headgear | Corinthian helmet |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Lost spear |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Peplos |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Over left shoulder and down back. |
| Condition | Good, slightly worn. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 100.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Menzel 1966, no 59; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, no 65 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 104, pl 4;Toynbee 1964, 82; Green 1976, 216, no 29, pl VIId; Lindgren 1980, 93, pl 64; Clarke and Clarke 1971, 29 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Stands with weight on right leg, left bent. Left hand on hip, right raised and hand curled to hold missing spear. Mitten hands. Solid cast. Slightly hunched stance. Thick regular folds of tunic. Quite a llarge wedge-shaped nose. Quite a lot of ddetail, especially to clothes, but decidedly provincial execution. Holding object in left hand. Toes peep out beneath gown. Small shoulders and chest; the upper body is too small for the rest of the piece. |
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