ID | 187 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | NY7914 |
County | Cumbria |
Site | Brough-under-Stainmore |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Fort |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1874,0328.42 |
M/F | Male |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Human |
Name | Bound Captive |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Seated |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | London (174) |
References | Green 1978, 48; British Museum 1964, 54, no 2; Jackson 2005, 151 no 2, figs. 1, 3 and 8 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | The figure is very schematically rendered and the workmanship indifferent. It shows a crouched or seated man, with drawn-up haunches, bound with a rope or chain than encircles his neck, wrists and ankles. Although the form is reasonably well-observed the head is disproportionately large. The stylised hair is shown brushed back in lines, the beady eyes comprise small round pellets within slightly irregular hollows, the nose is beak-like and the mouth is a broad horizontal slit. The flexed arms and legs, undivided and schematised, with elbows on knees, are depicted essentially to show their position. Details of the forward-thrust clasped hands are restricted to a grooved representation of interlocking fingers. The twisted rope encircling the neck ha been comparatively carefully depicted, but it is shown more schematically where it extends forward from the neck to the wrists (Jackson). |
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