Object type
figure
Culture/period
Colonisations
Materials
bronze
Technique
casting
Mint
Production date
-450 / -450
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Son Gelabert de Dalt
Township
Lloret de Vista Alegre (Europa, Espanya, Balears, Mallorca)
Dimensions
213 x 60 x 33 mm
Description
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Statuette depicting a bearded naked warrior with a Chalcidian helmet without cheek pieces. The right arm is extended horizontally while the left, flexed 90 degreeswould have held up a vertical shaft. It would be a representation of Ares, the Greek god of war. It was probably originally from Magna Greece, since mercenaries from the Balearics, when they took part in the wars of the Mediterranean, brought to the islands divinities of other cultures, gods or heroes linked to the war, such as " the balearicus Mars", represented in several statues as a naked warrior in the posture of combat. Our example, although not exactly of the "balearicus Mars" types, displays many similarities with that model.
© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID
2500