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| ID | 34 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TQ3279 |
| Project type | Unknown |
| County | Greater London |
| Site | London |
| Site Name | Southwark |
| Site Type | Large town |
| Location Type | Unknown |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Secondary Material | Possibly tinned or plated |
| Import | No |
| Place of manufacture | Local |
| Location | Museum of London |
| Ref No | G2067 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mercury |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Head wings |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Missing right foot, left leg, right hand, worn |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Stylised 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 70.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1969, no 11; Menzel 1966, no 36; Leibundgut 1976, no 6; Fleischer 1967, no 67 |
| References | Pitts 1979, 53, no 20, pl 11; Green 1976, 224; Guildhall Museum 1908, no. 9 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Right arm too thin, left better but big mitten hand depicted quite awkwardly. Top of thighs attached. Big hair. |
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