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| ID | 96 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | NY6166 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Cumbria |
| Site | Hadrian's Wall |
| Site Name | Birdoswald |
| Site Type | Military |
| Location Type | Fort |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 1 |
| Object Date | C2-3 |
| Object Period | 3 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Secondary Material | Gilded |
| Import | Yes |
| Place of manufacture | Gaul |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1895,0408.1 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Hercules |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Lionskin |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Lionskin, (missing) club |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Sleeveless tunic and belt |
| Drapery | Yes |
| Drapery description | Lionskin over left shoulder and arm, tied at neck |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | High |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 500.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 78, pl 18; Toynbee 1964, 74; Green 1978, 47; Murray 1896, 199-202; BM Guide 1964, 54 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | slender, beardles, round-faced, and very youthful in appearance, and he wears his hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls. The mask of the lion's spoils forms a hood, with the forepaws tied below the chin, while the rest of the pelt is worn as a cloak wound tightly round the left arm, which hangs by his side (Toynbee, continues). |
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