File:Figurine (FindID 594432-480297).tif
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| Photographer |
Suffolk County Council, Gemma Stewart, 2014-01-10 16:11:29 |
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| Title |
Figurine |
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| Description |
English: An incomplete copper-alloy Roman figurine in the form of Mercury. It is missing its lower arms and legs due to old breaks, now worn.
The figure is naked. He stands facing, with legs apart and left leg slightly forward. His head is turned slightly to his right. It is surmounted by a winged cap with a fringe of hair moulded all around the base, decorated with longitudinal grooves. His face has a defined chin and jaw-line with circular indentations for the eyes and adjacent deep grooves to emphasise the nose. The mouth is worn but a slight depression remains. Below the head is the neck which extends to the shoulders and torso. The torso is slender but toned, with smooth mouldings depicting muscle. It has a slight delineation on the chest for the breast bone and a small circular indentation either side for nipples. At the base of the torso are adjacent diagonal grooves defining the groin area, with a fig leaf or unusual genitalia, consisting of very high testicles and a short phallus in the centre. The back of the torso has a further groove to define the (rounded) buttocks and top of the thighs. The remaining limbs are circular in section. This figurine measures 63.29mm in height, 28.49mm in width, 11.87mm in thickness, 52.99g in weight. Similar examples of Mercury are recorded on the PAS database (LIN-25CC02), (LIN-3A2272), (WILT-564501), (ESS-BC68F7), (IOW-80A331) and in The Religions of Civilian Roman Britain (Green, 1976, pp. 271, no. a). |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Suffolk | ||
| Date | between 43 and 410 | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 594432 Old ref: SF-FBCE78 Filename: BRG_SF-FBCE78.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/452003 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/452003/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/594432 |
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| current | 17:01, 29 January 2017 |  | 6,350 × 6,309 (355 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Portable Antiquities Scheme, create missing image based on cross-ref check. FindID 594432, ImageID 480297. |
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