[Link to Bibliography]
| ID | 30 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL3875 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Cambridgeshire |
| County Previously | Huntingdonshire |
| Site | Earith |
| Site Name | Causeway Meadow |
| Site Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Date | C2-3? |
| Object Period | 3 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Secondary Material | Silver inlay |
| Import | Yes |
| Place of manufacture | ?Gaul |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1871,0601.1 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Mature |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mars |
| Aliases | Jupiter |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Corinthian helmet |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | missing spear and shield? |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Military kilt and short sleeved tunic, cuirass |
| Drapery | No |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 212.50 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Menzel 1966, no25; Fleischer 1967, no41 |
| References | Pitts 1979, 52, no16, pl 8; Toynbee 1964, 67; Green 1976, 209, Lindgren 1980, 105-6; Taylor 1926, 264; Lewis 1867-70, 498-501 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | See Pitts for full description; 'fussy ornamentation' |
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