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| ID | 91 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL4497 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Cambridgeshire |
| Site | near Ely |
| Site Name | Sutton |
| Site Type | Unknown |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Cambridge University Museum |
| Ref No | A.R. 1891.18 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Hercules |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Wreath |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Club, lionskin |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Very worn, missing right arm below elbow, break on left leg at knee |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 3 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 64.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1967, no 9; Rolland 1965, no 100 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no. 73; Toynbee 1964, 73; Green 1976, 210; Heichelheim 1937, 53, pl III [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Nude male stands with weight on left leg, right slightly bent at knee but parallel to left. Looks slightly to the right. Features of face worn but can see beard, hair incised. Stands on small rectangular base. Left arm at side, hand holds club which rests on ground to left of leg. Left arm also draped with lionskin. Right arm held slightly out from side, hand missing. Proportions not bad, musculature shown (but slightly affected by wear and corrosion). Central groove down back. |
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