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| ID | 327 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | ST6636 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Somerset |
| Site | Bruton |
| Site Name | Lamyatt Beacon |
| Site Type | Religious |
| Location Type | Temple |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 2 |
| Site Date | Late C3-4 |
| Object Date | L3rd-e4th? |
| Object Period | 4 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | See 304 |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Somerset County Museum |
| Ref No | 24/1991/5 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mercury |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Petasos |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Petasos, caduceus, purse, ankle wings |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Mantle over both shoulders. |
| Condition | Good, petasos wings broken. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 64.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Colchester (1041); Babelon and Blanchet 1895, no 340; Rolland 1965, no 53-5 |
| References | Green 1976, 185-6; Henig 1986a, 277, no 3, fig 15; Anon 1961, pl XX; Lindgren 1980, 53, pl 11; Toynbee 1964, 72 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Original not seen, only replica in Bristol City Museum (BRSMG F4259). Same style as 326 but not as well executed. Mouldings of drapery folds very regular, face cruder with flat profile, thick neck. Flat cap style petasos. Fingers shown on right hand not left. Thick legs, ankle wings are just raised sug-rectangular mouldings on side of leg. |
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