ID | 39 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TQ3281 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Greater London |
Site | London |
Site Name | Royal Exchange? |
Site Type | Large town |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Museum of London |
Ref No | A17712 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Apollo? |
Aliases | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Other | Baldric |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Purse |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing lower legs, right arm and lower left arm, badly worn |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 95.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Pitts 1979, 54 no 26, pl 3; Green 1976, 224, no 63; Lindgren 1980, 55-6, pl 15; Wheeler 1930, 46 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | No wings. Baldric unusual, perhaps not Mercury or even a forgery (Lindgren). The stance and baldric could suggest Apollo. |
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