Summary

Samian bowl with a medallion showing Venus beside a column, with an owl on the right and a snake on the left, from Gaul and found at the Roman site at Newstead, 2nd century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1322

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Bowl (Drag. 37). Height, 5 1/4". Diameter, 9 1/2". Medallion - Venus standing beside a column, right an owl, l. a snake. Panel-dancer holding scarf, Etc. "Rom. Fron. Post," Plate XLIX. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

Newstead Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1905

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1915

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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