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Description: | Roman copper alloy statue fragment, 71mm long, 36mm wide and 34mm thick with a weight of 90.33grams. The object represents part of a third or half life size statue and consists of an incomplete hand, which is partially hollow. It has its forefinger outstretched and the other three partially closed, as though in eeh act of pointing or holding something. It has thin, but well executed fingers with visible fingernails. It is in a partailly corroded state and has broken at the base of the palm/thumb and is also missing the outer layer of the upper side of the hand.The hand has featured in Brittannia (2012) previously listed as ~LEIC-7F4CC3It was analysed by Matt Phelps at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL and he found it to be a low zinc copper alloy (less than 4%)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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