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| ID | 23 |
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| Images |
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| 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 | Maybe |
| Place of manufacture | Britain or Gaul |
| Location | Museum of London |
| Ref No | G2064 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mars |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Corinthian helmet |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Patera, missing spear |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Short kilt, plain cuirass with short sleeves, greaves with interlaced thongs |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Worn, some damage to left heel and foot |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 96.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Boucher 1973, no 94; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1967, no 16 |
| References | Pitts 1979, 51, no 10, pl 9; Green 1976, 224, no 69; Guildhall Museum 1908, no 6, pl. XV, 5 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Nice piece, well executed in parts (details of clothes, musculature and face) but left arm is short and stumpy and right forearm long. The torso looks quite long but is is about right. Left foot very small. Right arm attached to torso. |
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