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Description: | Three-dimensional moulded bust made from lead, with a cylindrical iron rod running vertically through it. Although the head is very worn, it appears to have an elaborate hairstyle with long hair rolled up from the ends to make a long 'sausage', and also some kind of pony-tail running from the crown over the roll of hair at the back. Beneath is a small square-cut area of chest. Above the head is an area of mouldings around the iron cylinder - perhaps bead-and-reel, but now incomplete. The iron rod is 47 mm long, the lead cast is 37 mm long, and the bust is 23 mm long. The bust is in a classical style, but is it Roman or neo-classical? In favour of a Roman date is the wear on the head, and perhaps the unusual elaborate hairstyle. In favour of a later date is the unusualness of the piece, and the fact that the iron rod seems remarkably uncorroded. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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