Roman Weapons, Tools, Bronze Equipment and Brooches from Neuss - Novaesium Excavations 1955-1972

Simpson, Grace

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“… 35 Ward-Perkins and Claridge 1976, nos 196–7, 216; Johns 1982, pls 13–14, figs 52, 54; Simpson 2000, 54, pl. 16, 10; N. Crummy 2004.…”

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Bears and Coins: The Iconography of Protection in Late Roman Infant Burials

Crummy¹

2010

Britannia

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A number of infant burials in Britain, both cremations and inhumations, contained a consistent deposit of a small jet bear, black mineral jewellery, a coin, and a pottery beaker. Some of the graves held several examples of these items, and some a wider variety of objects. Comparison with more obviously amuletic grave deposits from Butt Road, Colchester, and Lankhills, Winchester, suggests that the coins were selected for their reverse image, and that both they and the bears are representations of guardians placed in the burials to ensure that the child did not enter the underworld alone and unprotected. These bears are set in the wider context of the animal's iconography and mythology, with particular reference to the Greek cult of Artemis, who oversaw childbirth and child-rearing. The choice and importance of materials and the positions of objects within graves are also briefl y explored and the social identity of the dead infants is examined. In an appendix of other burials containing jet animals, the Chelmsford hoard of jet jewellery is reinterpreted as grave goods from the inhumation of a young woman.Colchester

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“… 35 Ward-Perkins and Claridge 1976, nos 196–7, 216; Johns 1982, pls 13–14, figs 52, 54; Simpson 2000, 54, pl. 16, 10; N. Crummy 2004.…”

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Bears and Coins: The Iconography of Protection in Late Roman Infant Burials

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2010

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“…Since bronze is a brittle metal, bronze catheters are rarely discovered in archeological sites. Most of these bronze catheters were found to be curled and S-shaped, rarely short, straight or slightly curved (5,6,7,8). Besides these bronze catheters, a highly rare urethral catheter, made up of bone belonging to the Private Museum of Haluk Perk (HPM) in İstanbul exhibited with the inventory no.…”

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