ID | 942 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SU5543 |
Project type | Metal detector |
County | Hampshire |
Site | Popham |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Location | Returned to finder |
Ref No | HAMP2606 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Animal |
Name | Goat |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good, slighlty worn |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 20.00 |
Parallels | Uley (704) |
References | PaS database. [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Incised, curving lines to represent the animal.s hide. The ears are elongated, and one is incomplete. Below the ears, there is a raised moulding around the front and sides of the head, with transverse incised lines. The goat is standing on a base with an irregular lower surface. Goats and cockerels are the cult animals associated with the god, Mercury and they may have been intended to stand on pedastels flanking Mercury figurines (PAS). |
PAS id | HAMP2606 |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012