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Description: | Cast copper-alloy wax spatula handle depicting Minerva; Feugere Type A5. The head has a helmet with a large crest, with short incised lines at its edge on both sides although the crest is damaged on one side. There are three irregular transverse lines beginning at the front peak of the helmet and ending approximately halfway along each side. There is a roll of hair beneath the helmet, which is defined by diagonal lines. The facial features are quite worn, but large eyes shown as ovals with a very small off centre dot to represent the pupils. The nose is flat and is defined by an incised triangular border and the mouth is a single horizontal line. There are no arms, and below the shoulders the sides are concave to the waist, before flaring out to the triangular base. The triangular base, the front plate of which is incomplete, has a transverse slot up the middle from the base, into which the iron blade would originally have been fitted. On the chest, there is a triangular moulding with a concave upper edge at the throat. There is a moulding at either side, following the line of the aegis. Below it are two transverse mouldings, and two further mouldings at the waist. The reverse is decorated with two diagonal mouldings at either side which represent the cloak, with a groove at the base of the cloak, and two further mouldings at the waist, although these are wider than the corresponding mouldings on the front. At the base there are three transverse grooves. There is no trace of the iron blade. Dark grey patina. | 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: | 100
250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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