ID | 96 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | NY6166 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cumbria |
Site | Hadrian's Wall |
Site Name | Birdoswald |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Fort |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Object Date | C2-3 |
Object Period | 3 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Gilded |
Import | Yes |
Place of manufacture | Gaul |
Location | British Museum |
Ref No | 1895,0408.1 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Hercules |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Lionskin |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Lionskin, (missing) club |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Sleeveless tunic and belt |
Drapery | Yes |
Drapery description | Lionskin over left shoulder and arm, tied at neck |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | High |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 500.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 78, pl 18; Toynbee 1964, 74; Green 1978, 47; Murray 1896, 199-202; BM Guide 1964, 54 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | slender, beardles, round-faced, and very youthful in appearance, and he wears his hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls. The mask of the lion's spoils forms a hood, with the forepaws tied below the chin, while the rest of the pelt is worn as a cloak wound tightly round the left arm, which hangs by his side (Toynbee, continues). |
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