ID | 12 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TQ3280 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Greater London |
Site | London |
Site Name | River Thames at London Bridge |
Site Type | Large town |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Found with 4 other figurines (4, 9-11) |
Import | Maybe |
Location | British Museum |
M/F | Male |
Age | Youth |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Attis |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Phrygian cap |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Fruit |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Short tunic, trousers (bracae) open at front and buttoned from knees to ankles, shoes |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Good |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Classical 2 or 3 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Menzel 1966, no 58a; Esperandieu and Rolland 1959, pl. XXVII, no. 68 |
References | Smith 1840, pl VIII, 1859, 69; Pitts 1979, no 130; Toynbee 1964, 92; Green 1976, 222, no 19 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Youth standing with trousers which are open at the front to expose his genitals, but buttoned from knee to ankle. Holds cornucopia in left hand and grapes in right. |
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