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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper alloy military harness slide, comprising a rectangular loop on the reverse of a plate relief, moulded in the form of a male head, perhaps a god, facing right, the front part of the face missing. The plate measures 26 x 25mm. The internal width of the loop is 13.5, the depth is 10.5mm.A. B. Marsden comments:The head is that of a satyr and very closely resembles an example from Great Walsingham, Norfolk Historic Environment Record number 2024 (Jean Bagnall Smith, 'Votive objects and objects of votive significance from Great Walsingham, Norfolk' in Britannia XXX (1999), 30, no. 12, plate IVE). The Walsingham example faces left and not right, but the features are the same and the dimensions almost identical. On that example the face is complete and the sharp, rather grotesque features are unmistakably those of a satyr.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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