ID | 773 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SX9192 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Devon |
Site | Exeter |
Site Name | Mermaid Yard |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Fortress |
Context | Ditch 945.1 |
Context Quality | 3 |
Site Date | C1 |
Context Date | c.75-80 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | 1st century samian |
Location | Exeter City Museum |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Animal |
Name | Mouse |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Seated |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 16.00 |
Length | 27.00 |
References | Allason-Jones 1991, 257, fig 116, no 104 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Small three dimensional statuette of a mouse on a flat oval ground. The depiction is stylised with a large dot-and-ring motif representing each eye, but is immediately recognisable as a mouse. (A-J) |
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