ID | 457 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL1307 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Hertfordshire |
Site | St Albans |
Site Name | Verulamium |
Site Type | Civitas capital |
Location Type | Insula XIV |
Context | cellar wall packing |
Context Quality | 3 |
Context Date | AD 270-80 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Location | Verulamium Museum |
Ref No | SABMS 78.550 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Unknown |
Name | Unknown |
Bearded | No |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Left arm only; fingers broken |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 or Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 72.00 |
Parallels | Colchester (1029) |
References | Pitts 1979, no 255; Frere 1972, 144, no 156, fig 49 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Quite a large arm with large pin for attachment at shoulder. Straight, hand outstretched and thumb complete but with some damage to the fingers. Hand and arm not in proportion - the forearm is long and thin and the hand too large. |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012