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| ID | 15 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL9824 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Essex |
| Site | Colchester |
| Site Name | St Mary's Lodge, west of Queen's Road |
| Site Type | Colonia |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | Yes? |
| Location | Colchester Castle Museum |
| Ref No | Virt Coll PC1493 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Jupiter Conservator |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Thunderbolt, missing spear |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Cloak over left shoulders and across back |
| Condition | Corrosion |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 112.50 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Rolland 1965, no 3; Boucher 1973, no 73; Fleischer 1967, no 3; Menzel 1966, no 2; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, no 30 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 31, pl 5; Green 1976, 216, no 32; Newton 1846, 447, pl LXVI, Hull 1963, 116, pl XIIIa [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | On pedestal. Well modelled musculature of chest, torso and back, detailed head and face. Hair falls in ringlets around back of head, top of head flat with wavy hair, full beard. Legs quite long. Small mouth. Left arm raised to hold missing spear, right arm held forward with fulmen in hand. |
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