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Description: | Roman copper alloy unidentified object, possible a weight or a mount (although without any obvious means of attachment) cast in the form of a plano-convex mask. The nicely modelled mask comprises a male head with curled forelocks, side whiskers and stylised pointed ears, lentoid eyes, nose and mouth. Diameter 13.5mm. 4mm thick. Weight 2.87g. The head may be that of the rustic fertility god Faunus or a satyr. See Bagnall Smith, J. Britannia 30 (1999), 47 for a discussion of the evidence for a cult of Faunus in Norfolk and East Anglia.
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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