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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2500
Son Gelabert de Dalt
Colonisations

figure representing a Greek warrior

MAC BCN-029087

Object type
figure
Production date
-450 / -450
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Colonisations
Discovery location
Son Gelabert de Dalt
Materials
bronze
Township
Lloret de Vista Alegre (Europa, Espanya, Balears, Mallorca)
Technique
casting
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
213 x 60 x 33 mm
Description
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.

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