ID | 621 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TL1662 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
County Previously | Huntingdonshire |
Site | Hail Weston |
Site Name | Barrow Field |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Location | Peterborough Museum |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Petasos? |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Head and ankle wings |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing left foot below knee |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 114.30 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Green 1976, 207; Taylor 1926, 266; Gorham 1827, 550, pl XXVII; Green 1986, 59, Fig. 11 no 10 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | The illustration depicts a highly unusual piece, decorated all over with stamps. |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012