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ID	928
Images	No image in database
Grid Ref	TL9925
Project type	Chance
County	Essex
Site	Colchester
Site Name	2 Papillon Road
Site Type	Colonia
Location Type	near shrine
Context	Unknown
Context Quality	1
Object Period	0
Material	Bronze
Other finds from site	Found with cockerel 929
Location	Returned to finder
Ref No	ESS-D24132
Form	Figurine
Type	Animal
Name	Goat
Bearded	No
Standing/Seated	Standing
Is an attribute of	Mercury
Clothed	No
Drapery	No
Condition	Good
Classical	1
Quality	Stylised 1
Photo	Yes
Illustration	No
Height	25.14
Length	22.88
Parallels	Uley (no 704)
References	PAS database. [Link to Bibliography]
Description	The goat is shown standing with the left foreleg slightly forward. The body is incised with curving lines to represent the animal.s hide and it has a small, stumpy upstanding tail. The horns, or possibly the ears, are elongated and sweep up and out from the goat.s head. Below the horns there is a raised moulded, undecorated band around the front and sides of the head. It is just possible to see the lentoid depressions that represent the eyes and the horizontal incised line on the muzzle that represents the mouth. Beneath the goats neck is a moulded bulge, which may represent a bell on a faintly incised collar, or may represent the goats beard. The goat is standing on a base that is rectangular in plan and section. . . The base is 19.14mm long, 7.8mm wide and 2.46mm thick. The object has been cleaned since discovery and now has mid green patina with patches of red/brown corrosion as well as patches of the original metal colour. Goats and cockerels are the cult animals associated with the god, Mercury and they may have been intended to stand on pedestals flanking Mercury figurines. . . An almost identical figurine has been recorded with the PAS, record HAMP2606. Astoundingly, the chance find of this figurine was accompanied by that of a figurine of a cockerel, which is almost undoubtedly connected.See record ESS-D28ED1.Other Roman objects have been found in the vicinity, which is near to a known Roman shrine (PAS).
PAS id	ESS-D24132