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Description: | Small cast copper-alloy vessel, probably Roman. The vessel is essentially a miniature bowl that sits upon an integral solid circular pedestal, with a shallow groove between the two portions. The sides of the bowl are convex and the rim is unflanged. The object is heavily abraded and the original surface only survives in patches with a dark green patina. Exposed surfaces are pitted light and bright green. Traces of white metal coating survive where the bottom of the bowl meets with the top of the pedestal. There is possibly a moulded band just above the groove, but the object is too worn to state this with any certainty. The vessel is too abraded to discern whether any other decoration was present. The inner surface of the vessel is equally abraded. The bottom of the bowl is slightly recessed into the pedestal base. A greyish material survives at the bottom of the bowl, which may be corrosion product rather than a residue. The vessel is 30.16mm in diameter across the bowl and 23.3mm wide across the pedestal base. It is 17.9mm high, of which 5.6mm is the base. The walls of the vessel are 4mm thick. It weighs 42.97g. Ralph Jackson of the British Museum suggests that the vessel may be a small mortar, possibly for medical use. He suggests a parallel may be found in a vessel from Richborough (though this has a flanged rim) which was putatively suggested to be medical and dated to 280-400AD by Malcolm Lyne. This is currently unpublished but forms part of the English Heritage archive from the site Finds No. 4171 (AM Lab ref: 7350647). No mortars have thus far been found in sealed Roman medical context, so the suggested parallel is given cautiously.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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