Large cast bronze Roman jug

Archaeology (Verulamium Museum)

2003.314

Small cast bronze Roman jug. This highly decorated vessel would have been used as tableware by the wealthy and would probably have contained wine. There is a cow figure at the neck of the jug, and the handle terminates in a ?gorgon head. From burial two, one of two early 2nd century AD Romano-British burials discovered at Turner's Hall Farm, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in March 2002.

CD 254

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