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Beaker with Scale Pattern

1–100 CE
reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip
Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz 1992.183
Location: 103 Roman
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Several textile fibers were found inside this beaker, suggesting that it may have contained an object or objects wrapped in cloth when it was buried.

Description

The dark brown glaze on the exterior of this beaker is patchy and irregular, allowing the light red clay beneath to show through. The glaze is especially light on the ridges of the raised scales that decorate the upper body of the vessel, arranged in four offset rows. The pattern was created by applying thick clay slip to the surface of the beaker after it was removed from the potter’s wheel.
Beaker with Scale Pattern

Beaker with Scale Pattern

1–100 CE

Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century

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