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Warrior figure SC25. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Figure of a soldier
English
Alabaster
Height: 31.75cm
Width: 15.2cm
Width: 15.2cm
Museum number: SC25
Not on display
Curatorial note
Statuette of a warrior in Roman military dress.The figure wears a laurel wreath, with ribbons hanging down the back; the head turned half-right. A book (or staff?) is held in the right hand against the shoulder, while the left hand holds a (illegible) - shaped shield carved with a grotesque mask. Alabaster, mounted on a square slab of white marble. Perhaps from a church monument.
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