ID | 129 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL3344 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Site | Bassingborn |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | local? |
Location | Cambridge University Museum |
Ref No | 1923.239 (Ransom Collection) |
M/F | Female |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Diana |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Possibly missing a bow from right hand and arrow from left |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Tunic with overfold (chiton) |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Fair, missing left forearm |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 100.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Prototype | Praxiteles |
Parallels | Bieber 1961, fig 40; Fleischer 1967, no 37; Menzel 1986, no 81 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 109; Toynbee 1964, 85; Green 1976, 209, pl XII, Heichelheim 1937, 52, pl IIIc [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Flat back with very little modelling except for the hair which is tied in a bun at the nape of the neck as well as a topknot. The pinched back skirt is seen on other figures such as Lar 108, and the legs are indicated at the front through the drapery. Quite large feet and mitten hands. Right hand, curled to hold a missing object, rests against her hip. Face quite well modelled. |
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