ID | 86 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL9925 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Essex |
Site | Colchester |
Site Type | Colonia |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Colchester Castle Museum |
Ref No | COLEM 1936.900 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Hercules |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Lionskin and missing club |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing right foot, right leg broken at top of thigh and repaired, damage to top of left foot. |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 244.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 68, pl 16; Toynbee 1964, 73; Green 1976, 216, no 16, pl Vg [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Large and heavy piece. Stands with weight on right leg, left forward and bent at knee. Lionskin over left forearm is a rectangle with herringbone grooves along its length and a face at the end. Overly large clenched hands. Basic musculature. Hair in a conical cap with moulding around back of head. Reasonable facial features. |
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