Portable altar
Category
Archaeological material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stone
Measurements
270 mm (H)178 mm (W)75 mm (D)
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Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire
NT 73934
Summary
Portable altar - 145.4 One of four small portable altars. Altar depicting the goddess Minerva, the left hand holding a spear resting on a stool. Beneath the right hand is an altar swathed in material. Inscribed with DEA REGINA, RIB no. 125. Found Leamington, Glos 1906. Given to Chedworth by Lord Dulverton, 1932. Halo coiffure, knee-length robe. Short staff in right hand. See Villa Guide by R Goodburn, 1976, Plate 13. 'Roman Altars in Gloucestershire' by E M Clifford, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. IX 1939. 'Pagan Celtic Britain' by A Ross, pp. 172, 185, 188, 191, 193, Plate 60a and b.