Amulet or votive offering
A bronze votive offering in the form of a human right eye. It was probably an offering made by someone with an injury or illness of the eye.
It came from a site at Panticapaeum, modern Kerch, on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. Panticapaeum was a Greek colony but the area had for centuries been on trade routes between East and West and had absorbed culture from a long list of peoples including Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Mongols, Ottomans, Slavs, and Tatars. This complex archaeology was discovered in the 19th century and was subject to many excavations. News of these discoveries was disseminated by the widespread distributing of finds and this example was collected by Lieutenant Colonel LAD Montague. Montague’s collection of over 800 classical archaeological objects was bequeathed to the museum on his death in 1946.
It came from a site at Panticapaeum, modern Kerch, on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. Panticapaeum was a Greek colony but the area had for centuries been on trade routes between East and West and had absorbed culture from a long list of peoples including Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Mongols, Ottomans, Slavs, and Tatars. This complex archaeology was discovered in the 19th century and was subject to many excavations. News of these discoveries was disseminated by the widespread distributing of finds and this example was collected by Lieutenant Colonel LAD Montague. Montague’s collection of over 800 classical archaeological objects was bequeathed to the museum on his death in 1946.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/743
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- amulet or votive offering
- Simple Name
- amulet
- Period Classification
- Hellenistic - 336-146 BC
