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FIGURINE
Unique ID: WILT-D3244C
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper alloy figurine or steelyard weight depicting the head and neck of a male bust dating to the Roman period c 43-410 AD. The figurine is incomplete, below the neck evidence of the shoulders and bust are visible but are missing. The hair appears to be parted down the centre of the head, combed forward and then curled back to frame the face, the hair is decorated with incisions. The head appears to have a crown or a laurel wreath. The features are abraded, the surviving features are poorly defined, particularly the nose. The two recesses for the eyes are visible and the horizontal incision for the mouth. To the reverse the back and fragments of the shoulders are visible before the break.
Ralph Jackson suggests that the figurine may be depicting Apollo.
The patina is dark green. The bust weighs 42.76g and measures 42.54mm in length, 24.69mm in width (across the remains of the shoulders) and 17.07mm in depth (from front to back of head).
Class: Apollo
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.54 mm
Width: 24.69 mm
Thickness: 17.09 mm
Weight: 42.76 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: WHM 2014-63
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Etchilhampton
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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