| ID | 771 |
|---|---|
| Images | No image in database |
| Grid Ref | SX9292 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Devon |
| Site | Exeter |
| Site Name | Valiant Soldier, Holloway Street |
| Site Type | Military |
| Location Type | Fortress |
| Context | Cremation VS362 |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Site Date | C1 |
| Context Date | c.64+ |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | Coins of Nero (AD 61-8) |
| Location | Exeter City Museum |
| M/F | Female |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Victory |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Wings |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Chiton |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Right arm and tips of wings missing, pockmarked from cremations |
| Classical | 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 70.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Salvatore 2001, 133, pl 14; Ling 1991, 257, fig 116, no 102 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | The dress is a Doric chiton girded at the waist; the overfold billows round and behind the hips, as does the skirt around the legs. . . The lower part of the statuette contracts almost to a point, and the hollowed rear shows that only a frontal viewpoint was intended (Ling) |
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