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| ID | 527 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | SP1726 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Site | Stow-on-the-Wold |
| Site Name | Swell |
| Site Type | Unknown |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Date | C3/2 BC |
| Object Period | 9 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | Yes |
| Place of manufacture | North Italy |
| Location | Corinium Museum |
| Ref No | Royce Collection (1984/58/287) |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mars |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Helmet |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Helmet |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Skirt and cuirass |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Right arm broken at elbow; worn |
| Classical | 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Height | 84.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Mount Batten (Henig 1988, 70); Adam 1984, no263 |
| References | Green 1976, 176; Henig and Paddock 1993, 85, fig 1.2 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | He wears a crested Apulo-Corinthian helmet, a cuirass (ornamented at the back with a star motif) and a belted triple-tiered skirt composed of pteryges. Supposedly found at Swell. |
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