Friga
Friga
Friga
Friga
Friga

Image credit: Buckinghamshire County Museum

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The Saxon goddess, Friga, from whom the weekday name Friday is derived. This figure is based on an engraving of the Saxon deities in a seventeenth-century text by Richard Verstegen.

Buckinghamshire County Museum

Aylesbury

Title

Friga

Date

1726–1730

Medium

Portland stone

Measurements

H 172 x W 58 x D 56 cm;
Plinth: H 10.5 x W 78.5 x D 66.5 cm (E)

Accession number

AYBCM : 1994.116.1

Acquisition method

purchased from Christie's, 1994

Work type

Statue

Inscription description

on plinth, in Saxon runes: Friga

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