ID | 421 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TG2427 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Norfolk |
Site | Felmingham |
Site Name | Felmingham Hall |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Hoard |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Context Date | C3 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Hoard in pot |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1925,0610 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Mount |
Type | Deity |
Name | Helioserapis? |
Aliases | Sol, Jupiter |
Bearded | Yes |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Crescent moon |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Classical | 0 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 58.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Thealby, Lincoln (Ross 1992, 95) |
References | Green 1976, 205, pl XXII d; Fox 1889, 360; British Museum 1964, 60; Haverfield 1901a, 307-9; Gilbert 1978, 165, fig. 3C, pl. Va; Toynbee 1964, 65 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Gilbert - head of a heliotrope. a male face on a medallion-shaped backing. From this medallion project four rays in various directions and on the top of the head is a crescent. The hair is a mass of deeply cut curls which progress round the chin to form the beard and to which the moustache also joins. The end of the neck is cleanly cut and finished so there is little possibility that this could have been fixed to a staff or stand of any sort. It is more likely that it was intended to stand free on an altar or shrine along with other votive objects. . . The figure is obviously intended to portray a sun god, or a god of the heavens, with the crescent representing the moon. Toynbee suggests it is syncretised head of Jupiter in a provincial manner |
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