Vessel metal / jug, wine

Description

Large bronze wine jug, the handle is decorated at the rim with a lotus bud between two birds heads' and at the base with Bacchus' head, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), late 1st century AD

Museum reference

X.FRA 1193

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Vessel metal / jug, wine

Date

Late 1st century

Style / Culture

Romano-British

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze; large; handle ending in a bacchanal's head with ivy tendrils in the hair

Collection place(s)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Newstead Collection

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

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