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Description: | Cast copper-alloy figurine in the form of a goat. It is standing on a hollow sub-rectangular base measuring 9 x 11 mm, which has four circular holes through it at an angle, presumably to enable it to be attached to a surface or staff. The straight front legs and bent rear legs rise up from this, both made of a single piece of metal with a broad angular groove delineating the division between the legs. The chest swells out at a right angle to the legs and runs up into the neck. The body is more rounded; it has a distinct lump at the withers, and below this another circular hole. The rump is tilted up and ends in a broad long tail curving upwards. The head has a stout short nose, cut off almost vertically at the end, schematic swept-back ears and curved-back horns or antlers. There is no detail added to show a mouth or eyes. This figurine is almost certainly Roman; the holes in the base are probably to attach the figurine to an altar, and the hole in the shoulder may be to link it to a standing figure of Mercury (the goat is the animal version of Mercury). | 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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