1896.15.27

Collection type

Object

Description

Pottery votive offering of a [?]heart. Hollow on the inside.

Geographical reference

Italy

Europe > Southern Europe > Italy

Lazio Provincia di Roma Veii

Person

Field collector Robert William Theodore Gunther

PRM source Robert William Theodore Gunther

Date / Period

Date made: 350-101 BC?, uncertain Archaeological period: Roman

Date collected

By 1896

Acquisition information

Donated: 1896

Materials and processes

Material Terracotta Pottery, Process Modelled, Process Moulded

Dimensions

Diameter: max 57 mm, Height: max 105 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1896.15.27

Research and responses

Examined on 21 January 2013 by Dr Rebecca Flemming, from the Faculty of Classics Cambridge University, who noted the following: 'In general Italian anatomical votives of this type are dated mid/late 4th - 2nd century BC' [Flemming's notes are in the related documents file for 1892.67.47] [ZM 13/03/2013]

Associated publications

Illustrated in colour as Figure 16.8 on page 350 of 'Iron Age and Roman Italy', by Zena Kamash, Lucy Shipley, Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 336-357. Caption (same page): 'Figure 16.8 Roman terracotta votive offerings: (a-b) hands (PRM Accession Numbers 1896.15.5 and 1896.15.28), and (c-d) hearts (PRM Accession Numbers 1896.15.22 and 1886.15.27). Such terracottas are thought to be to be [Sic] offerings of thanks or requests for divine attention towards a specific body part.'. [MJD 30/06/2014]

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