Two Busts from Littlecote
Two Busts from Littlecote
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利特尔科特的两尊半身像
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B. Walters
利特尔科特的两个半身像。布林·沃尔特斯写道：1978年11月，利特尔科特挖掘人员开始了一项野外行走计划，以获取有关利特尔科特公园罗马不列颠别墅周围环境的信息。在别墅西南的山坡上，发现了一片破碎的苔藓和小管，包括滚压标本，与两栖动物的边缘和罗马-英国的碎片有关。在向南不远的地方发现了一幅科内利凹版，上面描绘了胜利加冕福图纳。在这些发现的附近，记录了广泛散布的破旧的罗马-英国碎片和一些表明田野系统的轻微银行。1985年11月，一名挖掘人员在瓷砖集中地以西100米处的犁土中找到了下文所述的两个中空铸造的青铜半身像。当被发现时，他们背靠背，用腐蚀产物粘合在一起。它们被交给了地主塞顿·威尔斯爵士，后者将它们提交给大英博物馆进行鉴定。随后用金属探测器在发现点周围40米的方格上进行的调查未能找到任何进一步的相关材料。令人着迷的是，这些碎片是如何摆放在它们被发现的地方的。从它们凝结在一起的腐蚀性来看，它们是隐藏在古代的。它们是别墅里的战利品的一部分，还是墓地里的战利品，目前还不能回答。然而，青铜器的明显宗教性质以及它们的肖像与小奥菲斯马赛克的肖像有关，必须考虑到。感谢凯瑟琳·莫蒂默和马丁·海尼格博士提供的以下专家报告。牛津大学考古研究实验室的X射线荧光分析结果如下：
Two Busts from Littlecote. Bryn Walters writes: In November 1978 a programme of fieldwalking by Littlecote excavation staff was begun to obtain information regarding the environs of the RomanoBritish villa in Littlecote Park. On the hillside southwest of the villa a concentration of fragmented tegulae and tubuli, including roller-stamped specimens, was found associated with an amphora rim and Romano-British sherds. A short distance to the south a cornelian intaglio was recovered, depicting Victory crowning Fortuna. In the vicinity of these finds a wide scatter of worn Romano-British sherds and a number of slight banks indicative of a field-system were recorded. In November 1985 one of the excavation staff recovered from the ploughsoil, 100 metres west of the tile concentration, the two hollow-cast bronze busts described below. When found they were back to back, adhering together by corrosion products. They were handed to the landowner, Sir Seton Wills, who submitted them to the British Museum for identification. A subsequent survey with a metal detector over a gridded 40-metre square around the findspot failed to locate any further relevant material. What is tantalizing is how the pieces came to lie at their findspot. That they were concealed in antiquity is suggested by the corrosion by which they were concreted together. Whether they formed part of booty taken from the villa, or loot from a sepulchral deposit cannot, for the time being, be answered. The obvious religious nature, however, of the bronzes and their iconography in relation to that put forward for the Littlecote Orpheus mosaic must be considered. Grateful thanks go to Catherine Mortimer and to Dr Martin Henig for the following specialist reports. X-ray florescence at the Archaeological Research Laboratory of Oxford University has produced the following analysis: