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| ID | 134 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL1307 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Hertfordshire |
| Site | St Albans |
| Site Name | Verulamium |
| Site Type | Civitas capital |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unstratified |
| Context Quality | 2 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Verulamium Museum |
| Ref No | SABMS 81.2599 |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Venus |
| Bearded | No |
| Headgear | Diadem |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Gown |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | over shoulders |
| Condition | Missing lower half, corroded |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 51.50 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 114; Green 1976, 207; Wheeler and Wheeler 1936, 212 fig. 46 no 54 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Upper half of female. Hair worn in frontal peak, double bun at nape and a lock over each shoulder; traces of V-neckline and drapery. . . Poor face; eyes not level, slit mouth; probably local (Pitts) |
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