[Link to Bibliography]
| ID | 470 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | SP5312 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Oxfordshire |
| Site | Woodeaton |
| Site Type | Religious |
| Location Type | Shrine |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Site Date | C1-5 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Oxfordshire Museum |
| Ref No | OXCMS 2000.58.1 |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Human |
| Name | Worshipper |
| Aliases | Priestess |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Diadem |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Patera |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Full-length sleeveless gown |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Cloak from left shoulder to right hip and flows out to rear from left elbow |
| Condition | Good; slightly worn, especially the face |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 69.50 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Fleischer 1967, no 226; Rolland 1965, no 208 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 273, pl 32; Henig 1971, 106-7, pl XIX; Bagnall Smith 1995, 179 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Standing with right hand extended holding a patera. The left hand is on the hip. Hair is in a bun at the nape of the neck. Drapery falls in thick heavy folds of provincial style. Toes project from bottom of gown. Face worn but crudely depicted. Fingers on hand depicted. Loan from Museum of London (G2073) |
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