| ID | 54 |
|---|---|
| Images | No image in database |
| Grid Ref | TL0406 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Hertfordshire |
| Site | Boxmoor |
| Site Name | Hemel Hempstead Station |
| Site Type | Villa |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | Coins of 1st and 2nd c date, pottery |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Ashmolean Museum |
| Ref No | 1927.6642 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mercury |
| Aliases | Hercules |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Purse |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Missing lower right leg and right hand |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 65.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1967, no 40 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 38, pl 13; Green 1976, 205, pl Vie; Neal 1977, fig LXIII; Evans 1852, 394; Taylor 1914, 156, pl XIII, no 6 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Crude local work, proportions wrong; very large head and body too long for legs; little attempt at features or modelling; flat face, slit mouth, eyes and ears shown as hollows, only slightly incised hair, vertical incised line indicates breast bone (Pitts p57) |
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