ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY FIGURINE A finely made statuette of a naked male with his weight on his right leg, his right arm extended and hand gripping a pouch of coins, the left cradling a staff with a trefoil head; the head held erect, with the hair combed forward onto the forehead and a three-point crown above the brow. Bronze, 44.5 grams, 70 mm. Very fine condition, some loss to right foot. Provenance Winterton collection, aquired prior to 2000. Literature See Green, M.J. The Gods of Roman Britain, and Ross, A. Pagan Celtic Britain. Footnotes The figure bears a superficial resemblance to depictions of Mercury with his caduceus in his left hand, such as the Gallo-Roman example in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris. Mercury was adopted into local Gallo-Roman and Romano-British religion where statuettes of the god were used as cult objects.
ROMAN BRONZE MERCURY FIGURINE A finely made statuette of a naked male with his weight on his right leg, his right arm extended and hand gripping a pouch of coins, the left cradling a staff with a trefoil head; the head held erect, with the hair combed forward onto the forehead and a three-point crown above the brow. Bronze, 44.5 grams, 70 mm. Very fine condition, some loss to right foot. Provenance Winterton collection, aquired prior to 2000. Literature See Green, M.J. The Gods of Roman Britain, and Ross, A. Pagan Celtic Britain. Footnotes The figure bears a superficial resemblance to depictions of Mercury with his caduceus in his left hand, such as the Gallo-Roman example in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris. Mercury was adopted into local Gallo-Roman and Romano-British religion where statuettes of the god were used as cult objects.
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