ID | 527 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | SP1726 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Gloucestershire |
Site | Stow-on-the-Wold |
Site Name | Swell |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Date | C3/2 BC |
Object Period | 9 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | Yes |
Place of manufacture | North Italy |
Location | Corinium Museum |
Ref No | Royce Collection (1984/58/287) |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mars |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Headgear | Helmet |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Helmet |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Skirt and cuirass |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Right arm broken at elbow; worn |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 84.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Mount Batten (Henig 1988, 70); Adam 1984, no263 |
References | Green 1976, 176; Henig and Paddock 1993, 85, fig 1.2 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | He wears a crested Apulo-Corinthian helmet, a cuirass (ornamented at the back with a star motif) and a belted triple-tiered skirt composed of pteryges. Supposedly found at Swell. |
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