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ID 1186
Images No image in database
Grid Ref ST6432
Project type Excavation
County Somerset
Site Castle Cary
Site Name Manor Farm
Site Type Rural
Location Type Villa or temple?
Context Limekiln F901
Context Quality 3
Site Date C2-3?
Context Date early C3?
Object Date C2?
Object Period 2
Material Bronze
Secondary Material Silvered eyes
Import No
Location Somerset County Museum
M/F Male
Age Child
Form Figurine
Type Deity
Name Lar
Bearded No
Standing/Seated Standing
Attributes Yes
Attribute description Missing rhyton
Clothed Yes
Clothing description Short tunic
Drapery Yes
Drapery description Mantle
Condition Good
Classical 1
Quality Classical 3
Photo Yes
Illustration No
Height 93.00
Length 0.00
Parallels Boucher 1973, no 88; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta et al. 1973, 3-4 no. 1
References Henig 2004, 103-5, fig. 15
[Link to Bibliography]
Description a heavily leaded bronze in the form of a child, dancing on tiptoe, his right leg in front of the left, and with right arm raised and the left lowered. Both hands are now empty but a gash from the right hand to the wrist is evidently the seating for a rhyton, a type of drinking horn. He has a round chubby face, and his eyes, evidently silver, gaze upwards. His hair is dressed in a coif above his brows and long ringlets surrounding the sides and back. He is dressed in a mantle and short tunic which are richly pleated in fold after fold, the latter in particular appearing to billow around his thighs with the energy of his dancing. His feet are shod in sandals with well-modelled tongue-like flaps in front (Henig p.103).


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