Large Cast Bronze Roman Jug

Archaeology (Verulamium Museum)

2003.315

Large cast bronze Roman jug. This highly decorated vessel would have been used as tableware by the wealthy and would probably have contained wine. The figure at the neck of the jug may be Silenus, a god of wine similar to Bacchus, a suitable choice for a wine jug. From main burial one, one of two early 2nd century AD Romano-British burials discovered at Turner's Hall Farm, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in March 2002.

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