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Roman samian bowl, decorated
Good ware and slip. A winding scroll with areaded borders, the upper spaces being divided by transverse straight wreaths. (i) Apollo (D.55) on festooned quadrangular pedestal, ? leaning on tripod ornament ; (ii) divided horizontally by straight wreath (B.M.C., Pl. XXXIV, 34), upper compartment - detached ram's horns, lower - tendril with cruciform leaf and stipule ; (iii) Diana and hind (D.63) on pedestal as before ; ? (iv) = (ii) but with different straight wreath : (v) Neptune r. (D.14) on trellised ornament (as in D.570) lying horizontally ; (vi) vertical ram's horn wreath between trellised ornaments as before, supporting adjacent arcades (i.e. v and vii) ; (vii) winged female figure l. holding garland (? Victory - cf. D.481), on trellised ornament, ? and repeat with minor variations. Below : ram's horn wreath.
Dr 37 is a hemispherical decorated bowl
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Site Name: Holt, Wrexham
Notes: Context unrecorded