Figurines Data

ID	1186
Images	No image in database
Grid Ref	ST6432
Project type	Excavation
County	Somerset
Site	Castle Cary
Site Name	Manor Farm
Site Type	Rural
Location Type	Villa or temple?
Context	Limekiln F901
Context Quality	3
Site Date	C2-3?
Context Date	early C3?
Object Date	C2?
Object Period	2
Material	Bronze
Secondary Material	Silvered eyes
Import	No
Location	Somerset County Museum
M/F	Male
Age	Child
Form	Figurine
Type	Deity
Name	Lar
Bearded	No
Standing/Seated	Standing
Attributes	Yes
Attribute description	Missing rhyton
Clothed	Yes
Clothing description	Short tunic
Drapery	Yes
Drapery description	Mantle
Condition	Good
Classical	1
Quality	Classical 3
Photo	Yes
Illustration	No
Height	93.00
Length	0.00
Parallels	Boucher 1973, no 88; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta et al. 1973, 3-4 no. 1
References	Henig 2004, 103-5, fig. 15 [Link to Bibliography]
Description	a heavily leaded bronze in the form of a child, dancing on tiptoe, his right leg in front of the left, and with right arm raised and the left lowered. Both hands are now empty but a gash from the right hand to the wrist is evidently the seating for a rhyton, a type of drinking horn. He has a round chubby face, and his eyes, evidently silver, gaze upwards. His hair is dressed in a coif above his brows and long ringlets surrounding the sides and back. He is dressed in a mantle and short tunic which are richly pleated in fold after fold, the latter in particular appearing to billow around his thighs with the energy of his dancing. His feet are shod in sandals with well-modelled tongue-like flaps in front (Henig p.103).