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| ID | 16 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | SK8310 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Rutland |
| County Previously | Leicestershire |
| Site | Langham |
| Site Name | Ranksborough Hall |
| Site Type | Unknown |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Secondary Material | Inlaid eyes |
| Import | Yes |
| Place of manufacture | Gaul? |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1891,1213.2 |
| M/F | Male |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Jupiter |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Missing |
| Attribute description | Probably sceptre and fulmen |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Poor, no arms, chest and legs restored |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 315.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 4; Toynbee 1964, 64; British Museum 1964, 54, pl 16.9; Walters 1908, 90, fig. 1; Green 1976, 167 pl Ixd [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | The large and somewhat staring eyes (once inlaid), the parted lips and furrowed brow, the mop of tumbling curls, and the heavy, massive beard all combine to lend to the head an intense and slightly florid look more suggestive of Gaulish than of Italian workmanship (Toynbee). |
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