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Roman pottery jug
Mask of Silenus from a jug handle. It would have been one of a pair. Friable orange-red ware, perhaps with traces of a red slip. 2nd-3rd Century.
Silenus was a companion of the god of wine Dionysus in Ancient Greek mythology.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
60.482/17.1
Find Information
Site Name: Jenkins' Field III, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1959
Acquisition
collected officially, 26/10/1960
Measurements
width / mm:c. 40.0 (at top)
height / mm:c. 50.0
Material
Pottery
Location
in collections
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