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1896.15.28

Pottery votive offering of a hand. [DCF Court Team 18/3/2003]

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1896.15.28

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery votive offering of a hand. [DCF Court Team 18/3/2003]
Geographical reference
Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy
Lazio Provincia di Roma Veii
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 Incised, Process Moulded, Process Modelled
Dimensions
Width: max 87 mm, Height: max 27 mm, Length: max 240 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1896.15.28
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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