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Description: | Panther brooch
Roman 2nd century
Length 33mm, width 12mm, thickness 16mm
The design of the brooch is that of a panther walk to the right, one of the fore legs is kicked forward and points in the decoration of travel the other points downwards and is bent back slightly, the legs are narrow and expand out in to the paw. Both paws have three toes, each separated by a triangular recesses. The hindquarters is slightly stepped from the main body has only one leg which points directly downwards. The stomach is notched with three rounded triangular projections along its length, possibly this is supposed to represent a female animal and the notches are the teats.
There is a row of four large spots (2.7mm diameter) along the length of the body with five smaller ones above and below these, giving a total of ten small spots. Brown glass or stone is still present in the smaller spots, the stones are missing from the larger spots. The back of the animal is flat and there is a small stubby tall, most is probably missing.
The head is turned so that it looks over the right shoulder and stands in relief from the main body. There is a collar on the neck. The detail on the head is very fine, there is a crest running from the top of the neck along the head and into the eyebrows, the ears at triangular and pointing upwards, the top of which are very worn. The eyes are recessed to attach a stone, this stone is missing from the left eye but there is a brown clear round stone/glass in the right eye (1mm diameter). The mouth shows the animal baring its teeth.
The reverse is flat, there is a square projection at the rear 4.5mm tall 4mm long, that has a hole running from the top to the bottom, there is iron corrosion in the hole, this would have been the mount for the pin. At the forward end there is a flat projection 6mm long 1mm wide 4mm tall, this is the catch plate, the top of which is broken.
Dark green patina, this is the original surface, there is slight damage to raised and exposed areas such as the ears and the end of the paws but otherwise the object is in very good condition. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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