| ID | 283 |
|---|---|
| Images | No image in database |
| Grid Ref | TR3260 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Kent |
| Site | Richborough |
| Site Type | Military |
| Location Type | Fort |
| Context | Ditch |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Object Date | Late C2-3 |
| Object Period | 3 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Location | Richborough Museum |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Minerva |
| Bearded | No |
| Headgear | Crested helmet |
| Attributes | Missing |
| Attribute description | Shield and spear |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Tunic |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Mantle |
| Condition | Lower half missing |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 39.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Green 1978, 69, no 24; Bushe-Fox 1949, 138, no 163, pl XLIV [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | The statuette has been broken away diagonally below the breast, the break smoothed with a file, and a hole bored through the crest, so that the fragment might serve as a pendant. The goddess originally brandished a spear in the raised right hand; the left hand at the side rested on a shield. She wears a crested helmet, tunic and a mantle (Bushe-Fox) |
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