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| ID | 77 |
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| Images |
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| 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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