ID | 860 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | SU1460 |
Project type | Metal detector |
County | Wiltshire |
Site | Wilcot |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Site Date | Unknown |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | 1st-4th c coins, no 859 |
Location | Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes |
Ref No | DZSWS: 1993.531 |
M/F | Female |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Venus |
Bearded | No |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Head only, abraded, back flattened, worn. |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 24.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | nr Marlborough (Hoare 1821, 72); Faider-Feytmans 1979, no 76 |
References | Henig 1994, 143, fig. 2 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | This is an abraded head of Venus with long hair down the sides of the neck; the facial features are very worn. The head is broken off at the neck; the back is flattened and has some iron corrosion adhering to it (Henig). Face has narrow pointed chin and is tilted slightly to the right. |
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