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Description: | Roman copper alloy figurine fragment, consisting of the head of Jupiter, hollow cast with an ancient break at the top of the neck. The head is crowned in a prominent and up-standing vertical laurel wreath tied low at the back of the head, while the back of the head itself is left smooth. The features are quite fine though rather blunted, presumably through wear : the eyes are large and pointed oval in shape, the nose rather delicate, and the mouth slightly open. The face is framed by (an almost rectangular in shape) full and curly beard (occupying about a third of the fragment) on the lower half of the head, and a semi-circle of prominent out-standing (c. 90 degrees from the face itself) curls around the top half. A moustache curls outwards and downwards either side of the nose to join the beard. The entire head stands proud of the tubular sectioned and mostly broken off neck. Incomplete height 33mm. The huge beard and thick curls suggest this is probably of Gaulish, rather than Italian, origin (Toynbee, 1964, p.64). While it is not an unusual object in itself, it is unusual for the county of Wiltshire, this being only the fourth Roman figurine seen by a museum or archaeologist from the area. Cf Toynbee 1964, Plate XIV, a figurine of Mars with similar hair and facial expressions. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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