2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze statuette of a Roman warrior god in a striding stance, wearing muscled armour over a thoracomacus with pendant stripes, the right arm raised, the left arm resting; greaves on the legs; the armour is fitted with shoulder parts and decorated on the breast with the usual gorgon (Medusa), representing the head of the terrible Fury killed by Perseus and normally employed as a symbol of rank by the Roman commanders. See Beutler, F., Farka, C., Gugl, C., Humer, F., Kremer, G., Pollhammer (ed.), Der Adler Roms, Carnuntum und die Armee der Caesaren, Bad Voslau, 2017, pp.182-183, for similar.255 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). From the collection of a Surrey gentleman; acquired 1970-1980. The warrior is wearing a type of old style Hellenic helmet or soft cap, and his armour shows the classical cymation attachment for the pteryges; probably the statuette was employed as a family ex voto for the represented god, possibly Mars.