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ID	525
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Grid Ref	SP0220
Project type	Excavation
County	Gloucestershire
Site	Wycomb
Site Type	Small town
Location Type	Temple
Context	Unknown
Context Quality	1
Site Date	C1-5
Object Period	0
Material	Bronze
Import	Maybe
Place of manufacture	Gaul
Location	Private collection
M/F	Male
Age	Mature
Form	Figurine
Type	Deity
Name	Mars
Bearded	Yes
Standing/Seated	Standing
Headgear	Helmet
Attributes	Yes
Attribute description	Missing spear and shield
Clothed	Yes
Clothing description	Tunic and cuirass
Drapery	Yes
Drapery description	Drapery over forearms and round back
Condition	Good
Classical	1
Quality	Classical 2
Photo	Yes
Illustration	No
Height	74.00
Length	0.00
Parallels	Ognenova-Marinova 1975, 78-9 no. 73
References	Green 1976, 175; Toynbee 1976, 87, fig bet p44-5; Timby 1998, 297, 339, 349, 350 [Link to Bibliography]
Description	He has rugged features and a thick, curly beard; and his thick hair, which flows in waves down the back of his neck, is crowned by a tall, conical helmet without neckguard, cheek-pieces, or crest, but with a braod brim shading the brow in front. He wears a plain metal cuirass with a curved, dipping rim across the abdomen in front and terminating in a row of scallops above a series of lappets, either of metal or leather. Under the cuirass is a knee-length tunic. The cuirass has shoulder-plates and on the left upper arm lappets are visible, those on the right arm being concealed by a fold of the god's cloak. This cloak passes in thick folds diagonally across the back, with one end caught round the elbow of the lowered left arm and then hanging down beside the left flank. The other end crosses the raised right upper arm in front and then falls down behind it in vertical folds, one of which forms a zig-zag.