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A Decorative Bronze Silenus-Mask from Ilkley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

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The bronze object here described was found on 25th July, 1921, during the excavations, carried out by the writer on behalf of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, on the site of the Roman fort at Ilkley. The high artistic quality and excellent preservation add to the interest of the find, which seems to deserve separate publication, without waiting for the final report on the excavations.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Arthur M. Woodward 1920. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 185 note 1 For permission to publish this account I am indebted to the President and Council of the Society, and likewise to the Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities in the British Museum, where the object concerned is now preserved.

page 185 note 2 It was possibly, but not certainly, one of the barrack-buildings.

page 186 note 1 Any resemblance suggested thereby to the Zeus Ammon type must be purely accidental.

page 186 note 2 For which I have to thank Mr. J. Manby, the University photographer at Leeds.

page 186 note 3 S. Reinach, Descr. raisonnée du Musée de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Bronzes Figurés de la Gaule romaine, no. 83 and p. 90, note 3.

page 187 note 1 Cf. the admirable photograph in Journal of Arch. Inst., lx (1903), facing p. 349.

page 187 note 2 I am indebted to Mr. A. G. Wright, Director of the Colchester Corporation Museum, for a photograph of this fine object, which, he tells me, came undoubtedly from a large bucket; it has not been reproduced or republished since Newton's account, with a line-drawing, in Archaeologia, xxxi (1846), pp. 443 ff.; cf. Mrs. Strong's, note, J.R.S. vi (1916), p. 27Google Scholar.

page 188 note 1 Cf. Alinari's photograph (Naples Museum series), Parte prima, no. 11280 (on right). My sketch of the upper portion omits certain unessential features, but is based on this photograph.

page 188 note 2 It is hard to believe that our bronze is later than the middle of the second century, and it may have been made, used and discarded before that date. The chronological problems of the Ilkley fort cannot be discussed here, but it should be put on record that the coin series runs from Domitian to Valens, with no certain specimen from the period between Carausius and the latter Emperor.