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A Statue of a Genius from Burgh-by-Sands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

E. J. Phillips
E. J. Phillips
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Dept. of Ancient History, University of Sheffield
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A broken statue of a Genius was accidentally discovered at Burgh-by-Sands (Aballava) on 5 October 1976 by a workman of the North Western Electricity Board who was using a mechanical excavator during cable laying. The findspot, in field No. 0120, was approximately 25 m east of the fort and 40 m north of the presumed line of Hadrian's Wall (NY 3293 5918. Mr Paul Austen of the Department of the Environment, who was present throughout the Electricity Board's operations, subsequently informed the present writer and made the statue available for examination before it was deposited in the City Museum, Carlisle (PL. VIII A).

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Britannia , Volume 10 , November 1979 , pp. 179 - 182
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Copyright © E. J. Phillips 1979. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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1 Britannia viii (1977), 376.Google Scholar

2 The break has been repaired with cement by the Department of the Environment, but a photograph taken previously shows that it was very recent.

3 The positions of the altars in the pits and the presence of other debris show the theory that an altar was replaced by another and solemnly buried each year to be erroneous.

4 The Department of the Environment has inserted metal rods through the ankles to secure the figure to the base.

5 cf. e.g. J. M. C. Toynbee Art in Roman Britain ed. 2 (1963), No. 33, pl. 30.

6 For other cults see the inscriptions RIB 2038–44 and a relief, possibly of Belatucadrus (R. G. Collingwood, Roman Inscriptions and Sculptures belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne (1926), No. 274).

7 See E. J. Phillips, ‘The Classical Tradition in the Popular Sculpture of Roman Britain’, Roman Life and Art in Britain, ed. J. Munby and M. Henig (1977), 35–49.

8 On Genii in general, see Kunckel, H., Der römische Genius, Römische Mittheilungen, Ergänzungsheft xx (1974).Google Scholar

9 Toynbee, op, cit. (note 5), No. 32, pl. 25. This statue lacks the easy stance, prominent displacement of the hips and rich drapery found on the best examples of the type.