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Description: | A probable cast copper alloy figurine of Mercury (length: 74mm; width: 28mm; thickness: 11mm) with a winged hat or petasos. The head is badly worn but slight facial features can be seen including the eyes and the nose. The head is slightly looking left. The figurine is wearing a garment, most probably a toga which has pleads running downwards in a ?V? shape. The left arm has been broken at approximately the elbow level (but could have extended outwards), while the other hand seems to be holding a spade or shovel which rests against the right shoulder. The pleaded folds of the garment are shown down the back of the figurine and the spade or shovel appears over the top of the shoulder. The legs extending out from underneath the garment still remain. The overall condition of the figurine is fair and only slightly worn in places. The patina is a dark brown/ black colour. Similar figurines have been in Colchester and Tallington (Green, 1976), Corbridge (Green , 1978) and at Flempton (Pitts, 1979), but few examples have illustrated Mercury as fully clothed with exceptions of figurines found at York and Corbridge. Most of these objects date between the 1st-4th century AD. There is a general lack of information on the circumstances of discovery and datable contexts with most Roman figurines (Pitts, 1979). Even during the fourth century, the pagan religion co-existed with Christianity. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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