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Description: | Cast copper alloy hollow-backed mount in the form of a human face in relief. The mount depicts an adult male apparently staring straight on. His face is an nearly circular and is depicted as being rather chubby. The eyes are heavily inset ovals and the pupils are shown by two recessed dots. The nose is badly damaged and no features are visible, however if the triangular break reflects the original extent of the nose then it would have been rather broad and perhaps squat. The male has chubby cheeks emphasised by a pair of moulded crescents, and the mouth is shown as slightly smiling. The hair is shown by a moulded and incised decoration depicting it straight and flowing down the sides of the head and terminating just above the line of the chin. The hair has a bulge at the top of the head and again just below the ears on either side. The reverse of the mount is hollow and has an incomplete integral circular-sectioned shank in the centre, which would have fixed the mount to the side of another object such as a vessel.The face may be attributed to Bacchus or a cupid.
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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