[Link to Bibliography]
| ID | 699 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | ST7899 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Site | Uley |
| Site Name | West Hill |
| Site Type | Religious |
| Location Type | Temple Structure II |
| Context | Layer in Room A |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Site Date | IA-C7 |
| Context Date | Early C5 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | Other figurines |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1978,0102.19 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mercury |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Purse, caduceus |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Paenula over left shoulder and arm |
| Condition | Slightly corroded, some wear. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 102.40 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Prototype | Praxitelean Hermes of Andros |
| Parallels | Boucher 1976, 106-8, fig 179-81; Lindgren 1980, pl 19 |
| References | Goodburn 1978, 457; Ellison and Henig 1978, 369-70, pl LXXIa; Henig 1993, 98-9, fig 84+85, no 3 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Not particularly slender figure, legs especially calves quite chunky. Small breats. Right arm at side holds purse, fancy detailed caduceus rests in left palm and against shoulder. Narrow drapery over left shoulder and wound around forearm. Similar to 698 - stance, chunky body, breasts. Face quite worn, curly hair frames face, slightly raised points on head are probably stumps of wings. Top of thighs joined. No realy moulding of drapery, 2 thin incised lines along the rear edges of the section hanging over the arm. Feet quite flat, no toes depicted, slight groove along sole probably for attachment to base. Left hand/caduceus/drapery area not well defined. |
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