ID | 135 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL5380 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Site | Ely |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Date | C2 |
Object Period | 2 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Cambridge University Museum |
Ref No | 1922.692 |
M/F | Female |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Venus Pudica |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Headdress |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good, slightly worn, fingers of right hand damaged. |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 109.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Bieber 1961, fig 30; Menzel 1966, no78; Rolland 1965, no 75; Boucher 1973, no176; Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 68; Fleischer 1967, nos 79, 82+84 |
References | Pitts 1979, no115; Toynbee 1964, 83; Green 1976, 211; Lindgren 1980, 76-7, pl 39; Heichelheim 1937, 61, pl IIIe [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Nude female standing with weight on left leg, right beside it but bent and raised slightly. Left hand placed to cover genitalia. Right arm at side, bent at elbow with forearm outstretched and hand open. Fairly basic depiction of form, actually better to the rear and sides than the front. Fingers and toes depicted. Very small round breasts with raised nipples. Very crudely depicted face with almost no mouth, wedge nose and almond-shaped incised eyes. Hair in a bun at the nape of the neck. Headdress a band around head incised with cross-hatching, and a raised section on top of the head from which two notches have been cut at the rear. Rather nice piece let down by the poor facial features. |
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