ID | 54 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TL0406 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Hertfordshire |
Site | Boxmoor |
Site Name | Hemel Hempstead Station |
Site Type | Villa |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Coins of 1st and 2nd c date, pottery |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Ashmolean Museum |
Ref No | 1927.6642 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Aliases | Hercules |
Bearded | Yes |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Purse |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing lower right leg and right hand |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 65.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1967, no 40 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 38, pl 13; Green 1976, 205, pl Vie; Neal 1977, fig LXIII; Evans 1852, 394; Taylor 1914, 156, pl XIII, no 6 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Crude local work, proportions wrong; very large head and body too long for legs; little attempt at features or modelling; flat face, slit mouth, eyes and ears shown as hollows, only slightly incised hair, vertical incised line indicates breast bone (Pitts p57) |
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