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| ID | 297 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | NZ3667 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Durham |
| Site | South Shields |
| Site Type | Military |
| Location Type | Fort |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Site Date | Late C1-4 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local? |
| Location | Great North Museum, Newcastle |
| Ref No | 1929.115 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Hercules? |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Lionskin |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Condition | Right hand missing, slightly worn. |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 66.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Green 1978, 71, no 10; Allason-Jones and Miket 1984, 156, no 3.389 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Very simple depicition, face crude and worn. No real musculature, upper right arm very thick, legs fairly featureless. Simple incised hair. Back plain. Stance with right arm out to side rather than raised more often seen in Mercury. Lionskin draped over left shoulder and arm. |
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