Bronze jug with human foot decorated handle
Comment
Weight of the preserved fragments (including handle): 467 g; handle weight: 139 g; base diameter: 8.4 cm; body maximum diameter: 13.8 cm; reconstituted height: ca. 25 cm; rim diameter (reconstructed): ca. 9 cm; MJIAP inv. 34‑72776.
The jug was fashioned from a turned bronze sheet, as indicated by the concentric circles visible on its bottom fragment found. The handle, also made of bronze, was cast and subsequently fixed. The body of the jug proper was seriously damaged, broken, bent in, deformed, and corroded: only the belly, part of its neck, two tiny fragments of the lip, and the bottom have been retrieved. Initially, the jug had a double tapering, streamlined belly, and a tall, slender neck. The upper part of the neck flared considerably but the lip was slightly turned in. The lip inclination is indicated by the form of the handle plate. The handle consists of a horizontal upper plate that continues with a vertical stem having a circular crossection; it runs down and terminates in a decorative human foot lower plate. On top of the horizontal upper plate, a vegetal motif (a water‑plant leaf) protrudes very visibly, being flanked by indentations. Right over its lower plate, the stem of the handle has an excrescence resembling a spur. The traces of welding the human foot lower plate to the jug are observable on the wall 0.5 cm over the streamline.
Tassinari “Western type”/ type II
Form
Jug
Material
Copper alloy
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