ID | 370 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TQ7369 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Kent |
Site | Frindsbury |
Site Name | Quarry House |
Site Type | Villa |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Pit |
Context Quality | 3 |
Context Date | C3 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | 2 coins of Probus and Tetricus |
Location | Rochester Guildhall Museum |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Bacchus |
Aliases | Cupid, Ganymede |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Phrygian cap |
Attributes | Missing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | Yes |
Drapery description | cloak over right shoulder and across to left arm |
Condition | Good, but missing left foot |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 or Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 118.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Silchester and Colchester |
References | Green 1976, 229; Toynbee 1964, 89, n.1, pl 20d; Haverfield et al. 1932, 115 (as Cupid); Arnold 1889, 189-92; Hutchinson 1986, 211-2, Me-19 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | He is draped in a narrow cloak, similar to that worn by figures Me-17 and Me-18 except that it is much longer: this garment falls obliquely across the back from the right shoulder, is caught up over the extended left forearm, dips low in ia kind of arc-concealing the genitalia- and is finally brought up and coiled about the raised right arm. . Coiffure also similar to Me-17 and 18 but with cap. . The key to the identity could be in the missing attributes of all 3 figures (Hutchinson) |
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