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| ID | 62 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | SU6462 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Hampshire |
| Site | Silchester |
| Site Type | Civitas capital |
| Location Type | Settlement |
| Context | Pit |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Reading Museum |
| Ref No | REDMG R03650 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Bacchus |
| Aliases | Hercules, Mercury |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Ivy leaf crown |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Purse or grapes |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Drapery over right shoulder, across back and left forearm. Deeply grooved folds |
| Condition | Missing right hand; slightly corroded and worn |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 70.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Prototype | hint of Praxitelean S-posture |
| Parallels | Leibundgut 1976, no 13; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, no 6; Colchester (no 70) |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 47, pl 5; Green 1976, 195, no 30; St John Hope 1893, 561; Hutchinson 1986, 208, Me-17 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Stands with weight on right leg, left forward and slightly bent. Right arm at side. Left arm bent at elbow, holds object (grapes? Quite corroded so hard to tell) in palm. Fingers depicted. Quite chuuby, modelling of body good, very small feet. Head turned slightly to the right. Hair in ringlets at back of head. Face quite poor- possible casting flaw. Eyes very close together and deeply socketed, almost forming one large hole with only a thin ridge of nose between. Mouth also quite a large depression. Overall quality of the piece let down by problems with the face. |
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