ID | 441 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TL6679 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Suffolk |
Site | Mildenhall |
Site Name | Kenny Hill |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Date | C1-3 |
Object Period | 3 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Eyes inlaid with blue enamel |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Ashmolean Museum |
Ref No | AN1927.564 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Attis |
Bearded | No |
Headgear | Phrygian cap |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good but head only and some corrosion |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 55.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Fleischer 1967, no 133; Boucher 1973, no 24; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, no 5 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 227, pl 29; Toynbee 1964, 92, 1962, no 39; Green 1976, 213; Anon 1892, 155; Fox 1911, 314 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Curly hair in 2 rows of curls frames the face beneath the cap. Almond shaped eyes, strong wedge nose and downwards turned mouth. Quite well-modelled. |
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