Pied de statue monumentale

Clermont-Ferrand (63) - Musée Bargoin

© M.Veschambre, musée Bargoin, Clermont Auvergne Métropole

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Right foot, wearing a boot with straps (mulleus) belonging to an imperial statue of almost 4 meters high. The decoration of the shoe (acanthus scrolls and palmettes) is characteristic of an imperial foot from the second century AD (Trajan, Hadrian?). On the other hand, the fineness of the copper alloy wall cast with lost wax is in the tradition of bronze statuary from archaic and classical Greece.

Where to find it

Clermont-Ferrand (63) - Musée Bargoin
45, rue Ballainvilliers

63000 Clermont-Ferrand

Commune of discovery

Clermont-Ferrand

Locality

Ancienne gare routière

Type of intervention

Diagnostic

Year of excavation

2007

Chief Scientist

ALFONSO, Guy

Inventory number

D 2017.1.500

Scope

Art ➔ Sculpture
Religion ➔ Religious object

Materials

Metal ➔ Copper alloy

Chronological period

Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476] ➔ Early Imperial [27 / 235]

Dating the object

37 av. J.-C. – 235 EC

Dimensions

H. 27 cm, L. 58 cm, l. 36 1 cm, 8.54 kg

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Bibliographie

Darblade-Audoin Maria-Pia, Mille Benoît, Le pied colossal en bronze de Clermont-Ferrand, Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot, 2008