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Description: | A possible Roman end-looped pestle from a cosmetic mortar. The object has a circular loop at the end, leading into a slender stem of circular section. A moulded collar separates the loop from an oval reel, from which three bulbous knops project at right angles to one another. The shank extends from the base of the reel, and turns just before the break.The indentification of a cosmetic pestle is tentative. The knops may have impeded use, and the loop plate is set in a different plane to normal. However, the latter feature occasionally occurs, as on Jackson's pestle number 207 and on an end-looped mortar (237) that also happens to have a pair of low knops on its wall (Jackson, R. 2010 Cosmetic Sets of Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, British Museum Research Publications Number 181).
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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