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- 727
- Vessel with strigillated ornament, fragment
- late 2nd-3rd c. AD
- White marble of medium grain.
- l.. max 11.3 cm, w max. 10.6 cm, th. ca, 2.5 cm (with flute edges) and ca 2 cm (within flute grooves.) Groove dimensions: w. 16 mm at the narrow end, 22 mm at the wider end.
- Broken on all sides. Surface finish partly preserved with light encrustations.
- This is a fragment of a decorative marble vessel with ornamental strigillation. It is a trapezoidal shard of the outer diameter of a shallow bowl or very wide neck, polished without and roughly worked within. On the interior is visible a tiny portion of the sharp right angle to the bowl of the vessel. Thus, our vessel was ornamented with strigillation in a counter curve to the bowl’s contour.
- Strigillation was a favorite ornamental marble pattern in the mid-late empire. That the inside face is only roughly worked distinguishes this vessel from the remains of others found at the villa, which are highly polished inside and out. This one may well have been a fountain element meant to be filled with water. Late Roman fluted cantharos urns are known from the villa at Chiragan and from Rome, Stirling 2005:61.
- Stirling 2005 61, fluted Late Antique urns; Late Antique data, and Late Antique texts about decorative urns, van den Hoek and Hermann 2000.