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| ID | 95 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | SU6462 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Hampshire |
| Site | Unprovenanced |
| Site Name | possibly Silchester |
| Site Type | Civitas capital |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Location | Reading Museum |
| Ref No | REDMG 1945.$281.3 |
| 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 | Slightly worn and corroded but otherwise good |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 65.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 77; Green 1976, 195, no 14 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Very nice example of the provincial Hercules type. Quite small. Stands, legs straight, right arm raised holds club and left arm straight out to side is draped with lionskin. Mitten hands, feet are just slight swellings at the base of the legs. Basic musculature, groove down centre of back, belly button and nipple dots, ithyphallic. Cap hair, bulbous almond eyes within sockets, slightly wedge nose, mouth corroded. Eyes not level (the left is higher). |
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