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Record ID: SF10055
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy figurine of Mars (?). Missing lower right leg and entire left leg, left arm, right hand; very worn. The head has an elaborate helmet crest and grooves representing helmet and/or hair; the face is very worn but traces survive of slanting oval eye lines and a straight mouth line. There is very little detail on the rest of the body which is not clothed except that the damaged hand of the raised right arm is enlarged presumably to hold an object (most likely a spear for the god Mars). The piece depicts a warrior god, most likely related to the classical god Mars. Surviving he…
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'BRAISEWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.
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