| ID | 335 |
|---|---|
| Images | No image in database |
| Grid Ref | SU0319 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Dorset |
| Site | Bokerley Dyke |
| Site Type | Rural |
| Location Type | Dyke |
| Context | Layer |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Context Date | C4 |
| Object Date | C3-4? |
| Object Period | 4 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | Pottery and 4th c coins |
| Import | Perhaps |
| Location | Dorset County Museum |
| M/F | Female |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Venus Anadyomene |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Missing mirror? |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Missing right hand. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 0.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Silchester (142); Colchester (136); Rolland 1965, no 78; Fleischer 1967, no 75-7; Esperandieu + Rolland 1959, No 35, 37, 38 |
| References | Green 1976, 191, pl Xif; Lindgren 1980, 75-6; Toynbee 1961, 87, pl III [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Nude female stands with right arm to front of body, missing hand perhaps held mirror. Left hand is raised and holds a tress of hair. Proportions not quite right, long torso in relation to legs. |
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