Walters, Henry Beauchamp: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1899)

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C. GALLO-ROMAN AND GRAECO-ROMAN
SELECT BRONZES 786-908).

I. BRONZES FROM GAUL, MOSTLY OF LOCAL WORKMANSHIP

(786-824).

786. Zeus. He stands on 1. Ieg, the r. foot drawn back ; his 1. hand is raised and Plate
has held a sceptre, and the r. has been extended, holding a thunderbolt, of which XXVII
part remains. He looks slightly to his r., and has richly-curling hair and beard ;

a chlamys hangs over his I. shoulder and is caught up over r. arm. This
statuette appears to be a copy of some well-known type of Zeus ; the head
resembles one in the Brit. Mus. from the Towneley Collection (Spec. Ant. Sculpt.
i. pl. 31).

Ht. in. From Lyons. Comarmond ColL, 1851. Right hand and foot lost.

787. Heracles. He stands with r. foot slightly advanced, holding the handle of
his club (?) in r. hand ; he has smooth hair and a curly beard, and moustache ;
the eyes have been inlaid with silver.

Ht. 12J in. Found at Bavay, France, in 1818. Presented by E. Drummond Hay, Esq.,

1833-4. Spec. Ant. Sculpt. ii. pl. 33 ; Mon. ciell’ Inst. i. pl. 17, and Ann. 1830, p. 59 ; Mansell,

Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 880; Roscher, Lexikon, i. p. 2180, The left arm and part of the
club are lost.

78P. Dispater. He stands on r. leg, looking down to his r.; in r. hand he holds
out an olla, and in 1. he has held a hammer. He is bearded, thc beard and hair
being roughly treated ; over his head and neck is a wolf’s skin. He wears a coat
of the form known as caracalla, fastened with a belt round the waist, with a
chequer pattern lightly incised, and with fringed border, a chlamys over his
shoulders, bracae chequered like the coat, and sandals ; at his throat is a silver
jevvel.

Ht., with ancient base, IX in. Found at Vienne, Isfere, 1866. Wills Sale, 1894. Gazette
Archtol. 1887, pl. 26, p. 178. On the identification of this type as Dispater, see Reinach,

Musie de St. Germaui-en-Laye, p. 137 ff., and Flouest in Revue Archeol. v. (1885), p. 7 ;
other examples in Babelon and Blanchet, Bronzes de la Bibliotheque A ationale, 694-698, and
Bertrand, Religion des Gautois, pp. 354, 355.

789. Dispater. He stands on r. leg, with 1. foot drawn back, holding out an Flate
olla in r. hand ; the 1. hand is raised, and has held a hammer. He has a slight XXI.
beard and thick curly hair, and wears a tight-fitting sleeved leather jerkin to the