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Description

  • 614, 615
  • Vessel, 2 fragments
  • 3rd or 4th c. AD ?
  • White densely grained marble that takes a high polish.
  • Ca 12 x 7.7 x 5 x 11.5 cm. Th. from 1.5 to 2.7 mm.
  • Broken on all sides. Traces of surface polish are preserved; gold-brown encrustation spatters some surfaces. There are some fresh chips.
  • Two fragments from the flaring cylindrical neck of a decorative marble crater. The sherds preserve both the horizontal and vertical complex curves of the neck, which will have tapered in from the shoulder, then flared above out to the wide mouth.
  • The plain vessel would have appealed for the bravura workmanship behind such thinned marble, and by its lustrous surfaces inside and out. The same SU yielded a fragment of a finely made handle and a rim piece for this or analogous vessels of the same ‘plain’ style and marble. See S 31 for comments on marble decorative vessels from the villa.
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Record Details

  • VM_1833
    • strato di terra posizionato subito a S della USM 1580
    • Ann Kuttner