ID | 77 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TQ3079 |
Project type | Unknown |
County | Greater London |
Site | London |
Site Type | Large town |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Museum of London |
Ref No | G22143 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Hercules |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Attributes | Yes |
Attribute description | Lionskin, club |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 118.50 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 50; Leibundgut 1976, no 181; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1973, no 11; Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, no 46 |
References | Pitts 1979, 61 no 59; Green 1976, 224 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Nude male, weight on right leg. Attenuated lionskin over left arm; left hand clenched; right arm raised with club held vertically; ithyphallic. . . Etruscan/classical type; local work; poor body modelling and facial features; hair indicated by thick grooves, thick necks (Pitts). Long thin body, torso long in comparison to legs; cap hair; little modelling on body, thick feet look booted; fingers of right hand crudely defined by a few grooves, left hand just a triangle. |
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