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ID	862
Images	No image in database
Grid Ref	SU1980
Project type	Metal detector
County	Wiltshire
Site	Badbury
Site Type	Rural
Location Type	Villa?
Context	Unknown
Context Quality	1
Site Date	mid C1-C5
Context Date	Unknown
Object Date	C2?
Object Period	2
Material	Bronze
Other finds from site	Coins and pottery from area
Import	No
Place of manufacture	Local
Location	with finder?
M/F	Male
Age	Youth
Form	Figurine
Type	Deity
Name	Genius
Bearded	No
Standing/Seated	Standing
Headgear	Top knot
Attributes	Yes
Attribute description	Missing - cornucopia/scroll?, patera
Clothed	Yes
Clothing description	Pleated tunic.
Drapery	Yes
Drapery description	Mantle
Condition	Good
Classical	1
Quality	Stylised 1
Photo	No
Illustration	Yes
Height	71.00
Length	0.00
Parallels	Earith (675)
References	Phillips and Henig 2003, 208-10, fig. 1 [Link to Bibliography]
Description	His head is large in relation to the body, in order to give it particular emphasis (a feature characteristic of Romano-Celtic art). All the features of the face are there apart from the ears, which are covered by the ample profusion of hair. The expression is, however, rather bland and mask-like. The best features here are the eyes, somewhat amond-shape with well-defined pupils and lids; the nose is worn and has sustained slight damage; the mouth if slit-like. The hair is elaborately coiffured from a prominent topknot above the forehead through a series of folds framing the brows and the face and terminating in a U-shaped fringe behind, at the nape of the neck. Little of the body is shown because the torso is swathed in the ample mass of a mantle elegantly patterned with transverse folds front and back; the end of this garment draped over the right shoulder of the subject (Henig).