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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 4008 | | Title: | | BRONZE WEIGHT IN FORM OF A WARRIOR | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 4008 | | Description: | | Weight in the form of a male bust, partially filled with lead. Large loop projecting from from the plume of helmet for suspending the weight on the horizontal bar of the steelyard. Oval face with large eyes, long flat nose and straight-lipped mouth. Ears set low, projecting almost at right angles from the head. Short hair, parted in the center and brushed to either side rather low on the forehead. Helmet covered with incised scales. Brim of helmet and top of plume decorated with incised tongue pattern. Figure wears elaborate cuirass-type garment with incised and stamped designs; cross on necklace around neck. | | Material: | | Bronze filled with lead. | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Metal split at lower left and right; lead filling partially gone. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.215, Dim. of base 0.10 x 0.08, Th. of bronze 0.002 to 0.004 | | Period: | | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | | Chronology: | | 4th c. A.D. cire perdue technique. | | Bibliography: | | AJA 39, 1935, pp. 79 - 86; AJA 50, 1946, pp. 368 - 369; Davidson 1952, Corinth XII, pp. 212 - 213, no. 1638 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Images (5)
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