ID | 241 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | ST3390 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Newport |
County Previously | Monmouthshire |
Site | Caerleon |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Amphitheatre |
Context | unstratified |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Date | C1-2? |
Object Period | 2 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Silver plated |
Location | National RomanLegion Museum, Caerleon |
Ref No | STOLEN |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Petasos |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Petasos, winged sandals, purse, missing caduceus. |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Some wear and corrosion. |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 102.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, 126, no 54 |
References | Green 1978, 49; Boon 1962, pl 10; Lindgren 1980, 57, pl 17; Toynbee 1964, 71; Wheeler and Wheeler 1928, 161, pl XXXII [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Stands with body leaning slightly to the right. Holds purse in right hand, left hand would have held caduceus. Broad, flat petasos. |
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