Such carved effigies are rare in Sussex-it is more common to find empty plinths or recesses where they once stood-and there are only three other recorded examples in the county.

In recent years there has been an ongoing campaign for the memorial to be moved to the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

He waved his hand at an empty plinth.

Ecce Homo was the first work to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

First there was the debate over the so-called empty plinth, vacant since Trafalgar Square was laid out in the 1840's and now occupied by modern sculptures that are changed every six months or so.

"That a naked woman should be filling the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square is ridiculous," Mr. Whiting told The Evening Standard.

In 1999 he called for a memorial to the heroism of women during World War II to be remembered on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

He left a huge gap, a whole grove of empty plinths with his name obliterated from each, herms with their genitalia hammered off.

Octavius asked, pointing to an empty plinth of some black wood inlaid with stones and enamel in most peculiar designs.

All any man has to do is look at the walls, the floors, the empty plinths and the absence of gifts to see what humiliation you have inflicted on Jupiter Optimus Maximus!