ID | 1186 |
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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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