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Description
- 61
- Vessel rim, fragment
- 3rd to 4th c. AD
- White densely grained marble taking a high finish.
- Ht. 5.1 cm, w. 5 mm, th. max 7 mm.
- The tiny fragment is broken on all sides, preserving only a portion of finished edge on one side. Patches of high original polish survive, especially on the inner side, on a surface otherwise blotched with tan encrustations.
- This small, concave quadrangular fragment preserves a small portion of the sharp rim of a decorative marble vessel, thin-walled, polished on both faces. The rim edge is carefully tapered, flaring only slightly out for ca 2 mm from the fragment wall. Because it is straight on one axis, curved on the other, it appears to be the rim of the cylindrical neck of an open-mouthed vessel such as a small crater.
- The form shows off not surface ornament but bravura carving, of a wall of marble so thin it resembles the luxury urns in silver and in bronze whose forms such marble urns imitated. See S 31 for comments on marble decorative vessels from the villa.
- See S 35.