ID | 90 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL4479 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Site | near Ely |
Site Name | Sutton |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Location | Cambridge University Museum |
Ref No | 1922.693 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Hercules |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Lionskin |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Lionskin |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Missing right arm below elbow, slightly worn but otherwise good |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 110.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Menzel 1966, no 58, Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 47; Leibundgut 1976, nos 183+185; Richter 1915, no 161; Boucher 1971, no24; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, no 47 |
References | Pitts 1979, no. 72; Toynbee 1964, 74; Green 1976, 211, pl Vic; Heichelheim 1937, 52, pl II [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Stands with left leg forward and slightly bent at knee. Right arm raised, presumably hand held club. Left arm out to side, hand clenched - ?to hold object. Lionskin is over the head as a hood which is tied at the front under the chin and the paws lie against his chest. The skin falls back to his shoulders then is swept across to the left, wound over the left forearm and falls to the rear. Incised grooves decorate the lionskin. On the hood the eyes and rather pointed ears are shown. Basic musculature shown, proportions not bad. Fairly finely featured face. Nice piece. Not expertly executed but a good and interesting attempt. |
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