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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy phallic cross-shaped pendant. This is a roughly equal-armed cross. The upper arm has a loop at one end, recessed on either side. Both of the side arms are tapering and curved upwards at their ends. The lower arm is in the shape of a phallus, with the centre slightly curved outwards, and the head defined. On the obverse, the side arms are decorated with a pair of transverse grooves towards the centre of the cross, and the upper arm is decorated with two pairs of transverse grooves, one towards the centre and one about halfway up. The reverse is undecorated. Fine light green-grey even patina. Length 28.72mm, width 24.07mm, thickness (maximum, along length) 5.78mm, thickness across centre (arms) 3.51mm, internal diameter of loop 2.0mm, weight 3.67g. | 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 | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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