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| ID | 359 |
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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 Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local? |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1870,0402.18 |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Animal |
| Name | Boar |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Seated |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Right leg broken and restored |
| Classical | 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 33.00 |
| Length | 51.00 |
| Parallels | Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 147; Boucher 1973, no 285 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 167; Foster 1977, 33, no 19, fig 12, pl Xie; Green 1976, 216, no 51, pl 21d; Pollexfen 1863, 510, pl XXIV, no 9 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Naturalistic; squats on back haunches; well-incised coat and clear ridge of bristles down back; long snout and tusks; nice ears; flat vertical rear, smooth (Pitts 86) |
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