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| ID | 413 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL9925 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Essex |
| Site | Colchester |
| Site Type | Colonia |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | Maybe |
| Location | Colchester Castle Museum |
| Ref No | COLEM J05.1078 |
| M/F | Female |
| Form | Attachment |
| Type | Animal |
| Name | Panther |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Is an attribute of | Bacchus |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Good, very slight corrosion in places. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | High |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 55.00 |
| Length | 71.00 |
| Parallels | Pitts 1979, no 179; Fleischer 1967, no 252; Rolland 1965, no 232+233; Boucher 1973, nos 287-90+271-3 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 168; Toynbee 1964, 122; Green 1976, 216, no 43, pl 29f [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | A female panther who 'rests both her forepaws on the upper edge of a round shield; this shield carries a grotesque male countenance framed by a shock of hair, with ram's horns emerging from it, and by a luxuriant beard. . . belongs to a class of objects, probably the ornamental handles of bronze vessels of some sort, that are not uncommon on the Continent (Toynbee) |
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