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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy handle from a vessel, possibly a jug.
The base, which is slightly concave to the reverse and a little worn, depicts a squarish face c.13x12mm with eight rectangular cells radiating from it (one of these has broken off and is missing).
The face has a heavy brow, flat nose bust rounded top lip and cheeks. The eyes are punched areas, one roughly circular the other more triangular.
From the top of the head the handle extends, 11.5mm wide and 6mm thick, though narrowing and spreading a little way around the perimeter of the head. It narrows over 19.7mm to the break where it is 8.7mm wide and 5.4mm thick. The break is oval in section.
The handle is decorated with an incised lozenge, inside which is a V shape. It curves outwards slightly.
Where the handle lies around the top of the head it is quite damaged.
An example from Hampshire also with a human head at its base has a design at the other end, though not apparantly a head and slightly smaller and less ornate. Publication unknown.
Incomplete length 40.2mm. Max width (at head) 26mm. Weighs 14.84g. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1
408 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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