ID | 692 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TF9438 |
Project type | Metal detector |
County | Norfolk |
Site | Great Walsingham |
Site Type | Small town |
Location Type | Temple |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | see 691 |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Norwich Castle Museum |
Ref No | NWHCM 1985.379.2 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Petasos |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Petasos, purse |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | Yes |
Drapery description | Mantle over left shoulder, wound around upper left arm then falls across elbow and down, folds depicted |
Condition | Slightly worn, some damage to left leg |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 96.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Frere 1988, 456, pl XXVI, no 2; Bagnall Smith 1999, 24-5, no. 2 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Standing nude male, weight on left leg which is slightly bent. Face fairly crude with slit mouth and flat wedge nose. Neck too large and thick for body. Muscles of chest depicted. Holds purse in right hand, attribute missing from left hand. Thick band of hair below cap petasos with small upright wings on top (see similarities with 691). Small feet, triangular 'mitten' feet although some definition of toes on left foot. Bulbous left calf with hole at rear and three holes along rear of left arm - casting flaw |
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