| ID | 1159 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | NY4054 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Cumbria |
| Site | Carlisle |
| Site Name | Denton Foot |
| Site Type | Civitas capital |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Location | Tullie House Museum |
| Ref No | CALMG 2008.16.3 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Hercules |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Lionskin, missing club |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Good, slightly worn |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 96.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Description | Standing with weight on right foot, left leg forward and slightly bent. Ithyphallic. Quite a long thin torso but not overly so. Lionskin over left forearm, swings out to side, tip broken, incised herringbone pattern down the centre. Left hand a fist, thumb over fingers although the fingers are not depicted, slight indentations top and bottom of the fist but not perforated. Right hand is really just a ring with a central perforation. Nipple and belly button dimples. Line of incised grooves along the top of the pelvis depicts fubic hair. Face fairly crude with small mouth, almond shaped raised eyes, cap hair with short wavy incisions across head. No toes, right foot flat and slightly upturned at the toes, left foot triangular. Not much musculature shown, but details on hair, lionskin, pubic hair. |
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