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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy figurine of a standing goat, the lower parts of the legs and upper parts of the horns missing (breaks not recent). The coat is represented by engraved lines. The goat was a cult-emblem of the god Mercury and "may well have had in addition an independent fertility symbolism" (Green 1978, 26). Two such figurines have been recorded from the Mercury cult centre at Great Walsingham, Norfolk (Bagnall Smith 1999, 31 and 47). Length 42mm. Width 10.5mm. Extant height 33mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
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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