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Description: | A Roman bust of the head of Mars, wearing a Corinthian helmet which is pulled back and resting on the back of the man's head. There is a curl on either side of the helmet and a crest running down the centre. The bust has curly hair and a curly beard, but most of the detail for the face has corroded away. There are rounded shoulders with a recess line running around the neck that would represent a collar line, and heavy-set lines running over each shoulder and across the chest that may represent armour. The back of the shoulders are flat; there are the remains of the solder used to attach it to another artefact. Length 32mm, width 8mm, thickness 15mm.The artefact has a mid green surface; patches of the original dark green patina are clearly visible in less exposed parts of the object. The extremities, such as the face and the plume of the helmet, have suffered the most, losing a lot of the detail. The Corinthian helmet and probable armour suggests that this could be the bust of the god Mars. Although a positive identification of the object that it was mounted on is impossible, it could perhaps have been soldered onto a vessel or a piece of furniture.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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