ID | 136 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL9925 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Essex |
Site | Colchester |
Site Type | Colonia |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Date | L2nd-e3rd? |
Object Period | 3 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | Maybe |
Place of manufacture | Britain or Gaul |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1870,0715.1 |
M/F | Female |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Venus Anadyomene |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Diadem |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Mirror (missing). |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing left foot, otherwise good |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 162.50 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Silchester (142); Bokerley Dyke (335); Fleischer 1967, no 73 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 116, pl 21; Toynbee 1964, 83; Green 1976, 216, no 2; Lindgren 1980, 73-4, pl 35; British Museum 1964, 54 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Stands with right leg bent slightly. Right hand raised to hold a tress of hair. Another tress is placed over the left shoulder. Left hand raised in front of breast, hand curled to hold mirror. |
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