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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Deep plain band above the decoration. Ovolo with three pronged terminal. Panel decoration, demarcated by coarse wavy lines with rosettes at the junctures. Occasional sessile leaves at the upper corners of the panels. (1) Hare to R., a common South Gaulish type (cf.K. 1919, 62 PASSENVS, 68 PVDENS). (2) Two gladiators (K. 1919, 57 MERCATOR ; Text-fig. 36 M. CRESTIO). Beneath them is a straight wreath of repeated trifid leaves. (3) In a divide panel :- (a) Bitch to R. as usual by MEDDILLVS, PASSENVS and SASMONOS (K.1919, 54, 62, 70). See also S161. (b) Two Gladiators ; the left one is similar to that figured by Curle, Newstead i, 207, 4 ; that on th eright has decorative details of D.599 and 620. (4) Jupiter, seated to R. (D.6, South Gaul ; B.M.M. 495, 523, 529). (5) In divided panel : (a) Hare as No.1 (b) two dancing Pans (D.423), as used by GERMANVS (K. Rottweil, 1907, x, 3), but the type is more common on late South Gaulish fabric (cf.K.1919, 53 OF MASCVI ; K. Rottweil, 1912, xxi, 1 ; xxv, 1 ; xxvi, 1, 2 ; K. Canstatt, xi 3 ; W. Gellygaer, xiii, 7). (6) Silenus (D.323). In another panel a pair of Sileni are depicted. (7) Bird to L. (cf. O. & P. xvi, 1, Bregenz Cellar-Find). There then follows a repetition of most of the fore-going types. Fair glaze ; coarse workmanship.
Site Name: Brecon Gaer, Powys
Notes: Found above the cover-slabs of the conduit adjoining Building "B" and in actual contact with the hoard of denarii (c. 120-130 A.D.).
