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| ID | 81 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL1307 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Hertfordshire |
| Site | St Albans |
| Site Name | Branch Road |
| Site Type | Civitas capital |
| Location Type | Bath house |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Verulamium Museum |
| Ref No | SABMS 78.28 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Hercules |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Lionskin and club |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Feet missing and club broken but otherwise good. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 97.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 63; Green 1976, 207, pl VII c [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Stands with left arm outstretched and draped in lionskin and right arm raised to hold club. Long thin torso and legs. Fingers depicted on both hands, left arm shorter than the right. Face quite long and thin with a pointed chin, wavy hair and long neck. Simple lionskin with three parallel grooves on each end presumably representing paws and claws, and shorter diagonal grooves on the sides. Very basic depiction of musculature. |
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