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Description: | Copper alloy cockerel figurine. This figure is cast in three dimensions. The cockerel is shown standing with the right leg slightly forward. The body is moulded with the two wings against the bird??s body and with a long, arched tail. The object is worn, so there is very little detail of individual feathers remaining. The bird??s head is similarly worn and is now missing its beak. No facial features are discernible. The cockerel??s feet are moulded together with worn stumpy feet with no attempt at realistic claws. Originally the cockerel would have stood on a small square base, but nothing of this remains. All break edges are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The figurine is 29.9mm long from head to tail and 22.62mm high from head to foot. It is 8.5mm wide across the body. The object weighs 8.72g. The object has been cleaned since discovery and now has dark green patina with patches of light green and brown corrosion. Goats and cockerels are the cult animals associated with the god, Mercury and they may have been intended to stand on pedestals flanking Mercury figurines. A goat and cockerel are known from the Uley shrines, Gloucestershire ?? thought to be dedicated to Mercury on the basis of the significant quantity of religious objects associated with that god and discovered there during excavations (Henig 1993, 101 no. 3 fig. 88). A figurine with a very similar cockerel along with a ram is known from King Harry Lane, Verulamium (Britannia 1972, 330 pl. xxv, b and c) Astoundingly, the chance find of this figurine was accompanied by that of a figurine of a goat, which is almost undoubtedly connected. See record ESS-D24132 | Subjects: | cockerel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McDonald, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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