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110 pounds is very likely. The average height of Northern Europeons was 5'5' or 5'6" 2000 years ago and they weighed about 130 to 160. He was most likely average size for his ethnic group and time.

The minimum height for a soldier in the Roman Imperial army was 6'. Granted, most of these probably came from northern or western Europe, but I think its a mistake to assume that all ancients were small people.

The figure in the Shroud of Turin was about 5'10" tall and weighed about 180 lbs. If that relic is an accurate one, and recent research seems to indicate it was, even if the figure portrayed was not Christ, it indicates large people did exist at that time.

At any rate, that's my take on it.

I dated a girl who not by any estimate overweight and she was 5'1" tall and SHE weighed about 100 lbs.

Cro-Magnon men reached a height of 6' and the "Turkana Boy" of east Africa who was not even Homo sapiens was close to 6' tall.

I just don't think it is possible to make a generalization about a specific individual's appearance based on what we believe to have been "average" in a population, regardless of what that happened to be.
What is the "average" height and weight for a male in today's population? Maybe 5'9"? There a heck of a lot of people much above that size.

According to the studies done on the Shroud, for those who believe that was Jesus on the Shroud, Jesus was about 5'11". He was tall but did not tower over everyone.