Copper alloy jug with a plate as lid
Comment
The vessel measures 24 cm in height, its various diameters are 7.4 cm at the opening, 6.7 cm at the base with a maximum width of 12.3 cm; it weighs 565 g.
Round cover has a straight edge; the base, around the annular bearing, is slightly overflowing and re-entrant, and carries in the center, concentric grooves; it has been cast and perhaps welded to the body.
The bronze jug has a continuous profile, an ovoid belly, a narrow neck strongly flared upward and torn at the place where the handle was attached.
The plate is a piece of circular shaped sheet, cut and roughly hammered.
Traces of work (longitudinal impacts arranged in concentric circles around a centering point) are visible on this object, in fact a fragment, whose edge has been cut with shears. This plate, stamped so as to constitute a rather irregular circular foot, bears traces of welding on the whole circumference. This type, common in Gaul, has a very wide belly, a narrow neck ringed and it is equipped with a handle cast in one piece with the rim.
The shape and size of the plate (diameter 14.8 cm) and the weld marks visible on the edge of the plate suggest that the container to which it had been used had to be repaired.
Preservation
complete
Form
Jug
Material
Copper alloy
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