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Collection Item: Statue

Basic info

Collection
Archaeology
Object name
Statue
Object category
Roman
Description
Head of woman with third century hairstyle, probably a funerary monument. Described in Eboracum as "Statue, head, of a woman, life size, 10ins high, in limestone; the nose damaged. Her hair is parted in the middle, waved, drawn back over the ears and turned up behind in a chignon, a style fashionable in the middle of the third century AD. It was probably from a funerary monument."
Production date start
71
Production date end
410
Period
Roman

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Identification

Object number
YORYM : 2001.12518
Number of objects
1
ID
2050

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Limestone (Whole)

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Place
York