ID | 343 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TG2427 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Norfolk |
Site | Felmingham |
Site Name | Felmingham Hall |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Hoard |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Context Date | C3 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Inlaid eyes (missing) |
Other finds from site | Hoard in pot |
Import | No? |
Place of manufacture | Britain? |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1925,0610.2 |
M/F | Female |
Age | Mature |
Form | Head |
Type | Deity |
Name | Minerva |
Bearded | No |
Headgear | Corinthian helmet |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Helmet |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good, lightly pitted |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 140.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Fleischer 1967, no 29; Bruton (329); High Wycomb (Toynbee 1964, 81, pl Iic, d); Silkstead (454) |
References | Green 1976, 205; Lindgren 1980, 97-8, pl 71; Toynbee 1964, 81; British Museum 1964, 60, no 2; Blyth 1844, 381-2; Fox 1889, 360; Gilbert 1978, 164, pl III, fig. 2B [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Toynbee - plump-faced, hollow-cast head. . with stiffly waved hair and a human mask (eyes and nose) on the down-turned peak of the crested Corinthian helmet. Gilbert - classical and Celtic influences, Minerva popular in 'essentially Celtic areas of Britain' |
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