Gallery Title
Gallery Title
pedestal cup
Accession Number NWHCM : 1982.464.5
Description
Cup, Roman copper alloy pedestal cup, c60 AD; loop handles rivetted on with ducks with red enamel eyes on top, side panels to handles with alternate concave and convex strips, the convex with transverse incised lines; external groove to rim; decorated with punched dots and nicks on top and sides of rim and around pedestal; one of a pair
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This magnificent cup is one of a matching pair, found in central Norfolk at Crownthorpe, Wicklewood, near the site of a Late Iron Age settlement and subsequent Romano-British small town. Together, they exhibit a combination of the different and opposing cultural influences current in Norfolk during the mid-first century AD.
Creation Date
60 AD
Material
copper alloy
Measurements
89 mm
Department
Archaeology