Oggetto archeologico
Weight (cockerel)Up one level |
Civic Museum Paleontology and Palaeo-ethonology “Decio de Lorentiis”. Weight for gold
dust, cockerel. Bronze. Ashanti craft. 14th – 19th century
The cockerel, the symbol of the Ashanti ethnos, is also present on small objects like weights for gold dust. The iconography is rather rigid. The animal puts its legs on a small circular base; the details are engraved, concentric semi-circles for the wings, vertical lines for the tail.
Further information
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| Identificazione | ||
| Inventory number: | E.S. 004 | |
| Precedenti localizzazioni | ||
| Provenance: | F. Santini donation 2003 | |
| Reperimento | ||
| Place of discovery: | Nigeria | |
| Oggetto | ||
| Definizione: | Weight | |
| Class and ware: | Bronze objects | |
| Cronologia | ||
| Datazione certa secolo: | 14th – 19th century | |
| Definizione culturale | ||
| Cultural milieu: | Ashanti craft | |
| Dati tecnici | ||
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Technique: | Lost wax, Incision | |
| Height: | 4,85 | |
| Width: | 2,3 | |
| Length: | 6,55 | |
| Varie: | Unit cm | |
