Lancashire County Council, Dot Boughton, 2007-10-12 12:39:59
Titre
Small Roman statue of Dea Nutrix
Description
English: Small stone sculpture of a female goddess nursing an infant (Dea Nutrix). It is complete except the head. The female is draped in dress and cloak and breast-feeding a small child. This suggests the representation of another form of Mother Goddess as a "nursing mother", i.e. Dea Nutrix. Statues like this one but made from clay were mass-produced in Gaul and exported to Britain - they all show the young goddess seated in a high-backed wicker chair nursing one or two infants.
An unusually complex fourth-century infant grave excavated in Baldock, Herts., in 1988 produced a complete Dea Nutrix figurine. Whilst not uncommon as site finds, Deae Nutrices are less frequently encountered as grave gifts in Britain than in Gaul.
Gilbert R. Burleigh, Keith J. Fitzpatrick-Matthews and Miranda J. Aldhouse-Green: A Dea Nutrix Figurine from a Romano-British Cemetery at Baldock Britannia, 37 (2006), 273-94
NB The statuette is currently on display in Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, Cumbria and could not be taken off display for a better image or measurements. The images here given have been taken with kind permission of the Senhouse Museum Trust.
Lieu représenté
(County of findspot) Cumbria
Date
entre 43 et 410
Numéro d’inventaire
FindID: 196894 Old ref: LANCUM-F78697 Filename: SRMBeckfootBeachDeaNutrix1l.JPG
Attribution de l’acquisition
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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