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Two Busts from Littlecote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Bryn Walters
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Roman Research Trust, Melbourne House, Avebury, Wilts.

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Britannia , Volume 19 , November 1988 , pp. 407 - 410
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Copyright © Bryn Walters 1988. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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55 Walters, B. and Phillips, B., Archaeological Excavations in Littlecote Park, Wiltshire, 1978; First Interim Report (Littlecote, 1979)Google Scholar , fig. 4, nos. 7–8.

56 For summaries of the work at Littlecote see Britannia x (1979), 320–30; xii (1981), 360–61; xiii (1982), 387–89; xiv (1983), 328–9; xv (1984), 322–3; xvi (1985), 308, 247–8.

57 Walters, B. in Farioli, R. (ed.), III Colloquiuo Internazionale sul Mosaico Antico (Bologna, 1983), 433–42.Google Scholar

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59 Clairmont, op. cit. (note 58), 39–40, no. 5, pls. 7 and 8.

60 ibid., 42, no. 14, pl. 13 describing the statue as Asklepios; however, Lambert, op. cit. (note 58), 105 and 256 no. 7, is surely correct in pointing out the omphalos by Antinous's foot as the place where Zagreus was buried.

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67 Clairmont, op. cit. (note 58), 42–4 no. 22, pl. 18 (London, British Museum). In general see pp. 39–47 nos. 5–27.

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