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A colossal left hand from the statue of a major male dvinity or Emperor, pair with Soane M691
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A colossal left hand from the statue of a major male dvinity or Emperor, pair with Soane M691
Roman Empire
Pentelic marble
Length: 13cm
Width (back of hand): 20cm
Width (back of hand): 20cm
Museum number: M689
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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This hand and Soane M691 (Vermeule 396), are the left and right hands from the same statue. The left was open and extended, therefore the arm was probably lowered; the right was closed about a round object the thickness of a sceptre-staff or spear, and the angle indicates that it was raised in order that the object might be held vertically. A pose such as this suggests a standing or seated statue of a major male divinity or an Imperial personage, probably an Emperor.
Unrecorded (is one of a pair of hands from the same statue which presumably entered Soane's collection together: see Vermeule 396)
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