ID | 454 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SU4424 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Hampshire |
Site | Otterbourne |
Site Name | Silkstead Sandpit |
Site Type | Religious |
Location Type | Temple? |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Site Date | IA-Roman |
Context Date | Unknown |
Object Date | C1-2 |
Object Period | 2 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Pebble inset eyes |
Other finds from site | Tile and building flint |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Winchester Museum |
Ref No | WINCM: ARCH 263.16 |
M/F | Female |
Age | Child |
Form | Head |
Type | Human |
Name | Girl |
Bearded | No |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Head only |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 1123.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Megaw 1970, no 239+240 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 247; Toynbee 1964, 57, 1962, no 8; Anon 1938, 196, pl XXVI; Denford 1992, 37, fig 9 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | exhibiting a similar fusion of classical and Celtic traits. . Roman are the three-dimensional structure of the skull, the full, plump face and small mouth, and the realistically rendered shortish hair, which is simply waved on either side of a central parting and ripples down over the crown and back of the head as far as the junction of the neck and shoulders. Celtic are the completely unrealistic ears outlined by hatching, and the large, almond-shaped eyes, also outlined all round by hatching to indicate lashes, while the pupils consist of tiny black, inset pebbles from the Reading Beds. The treatment of the eyes is, in fact, reminiscent of that on the late La Tene bronze masks from Welwyn. This portrait is difficult to date. The coiffure could be either a variant of a Julio-Claudian style or influenced by the simple, classicized hari-style affected by Sabina, Hadrian's empress, in her later years (Toynbee). |
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