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Description: | Copper alloy grooved cosmetic mortar which is concave in section for containing and grinding cosmetics. One end terminates with a broken suspension loop. The other terminates in a bovid head with horns, one of which is intact and the other is broken close to the head. The eye sockets are concave, and probably once held glass eye balls, though neither survives. The bow is decorated with two ribs of incised vertical lines. The lower surface of the bow has a median ridge which is decorated with transverse incised lines. This decoration extends to just short of half-way down the bow; beyond this point the dark green patina is missing. The object is very similar to an example found at Stonea, Cambridgeshire (Jackson 1996, 353 no. 112 fig. 114.)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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