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Description
- 613
- Vessel rim, fragment
- 3rd century AD or later?
- White densely grained marble that takes a high polish.
- Rim ca 10.5 cm wide.; it is broken away below some 3.5 cm down at the upper flare of a cylindrical neck. Lip , ca 1 cm w., molding 3 mm w. x ca 2 mm ht.). Th. 8.5 – 11 mm
- Broken below and at the sides; the top is the finished rim. At the lower edges is a scooped notch. Traces of original polish survive, under large blotches of gold-brown encrustation.
- This fragment preserves a portion of the rim of the wide flared mouth of a marble decorative vessel, convex half-round with a sharp lower edge, set from the interior by a tiny raised string molding. The vessel seems to have been very plain, showing off luster and contour rather than ornament, The marble type is typical of the other vessel fragments, and resembles that of many pieces of later statuary at the villa.
- From the fills of the same context, SU1833, emerged two smaller fragments of the walls of a different vessel and a portion of a pieced handle for a decorative vessel in a similar marble. See S 31 for comments on marble decorative vessels from the villa.
- See S 35.