Summary

Large bronze wine jug, the handle is decorated at the rim with a lotus bud between two birds heads' and at the base with Bacchus' head, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1193

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Large bronze handled jug (oenochoe), the handle ending in a Bacchanal's head with ivy tendrils in the hair. "Rom. Fron. Post, P. 275. Pl LV. 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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