ID | 171 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TQ3079 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Greater London |
Site | London? |
Site Type | Large town |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | London? |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1888,0719.97 |
M/F | Male |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Human |
Name | Gladiator |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Gladiator's helmet |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Sword |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Tunic and cuirass |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing lower right leg |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 75.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Reinach 1931, no 188; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, no 85 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 151; Toynbee 1964, 118-9; British Museum 1964, 54, pl XV [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | heavily armed type of gladiator known as Samnite, with the visor down, ready for combat. . . a rather clumsy provincial style (Toynbee p119). |
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