ID | 34 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TQ3279 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Greater London |
Site | London |
Site Name | Southwark |
Site Type | Large town |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Possibly tinned or plated |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Museum of London |
Ref No | G2067 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mercury |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Head wings |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing right foot, left leg, right hand, worn |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 70.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, no 11; Menzel 1966, no 36; Leibundgut 1976, no 6; Fleischer 1967, no 67 |
References | Pitts 1979, 53, no 20, pl 11; Green 1976, 224; Guildhall Museum 1908, no. 9 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Right arm too thin, left better but big mitten hand depicted quite awkwardly. Top of thighs attached. Big hair. |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012