A Campanian Vessel Foot from Silchester
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Published:2011-04-18
Issue:
Volume:42
Page:157-165
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ISSN:0068-113X
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Container-title:Britannia
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Britannia
Abstract
AbstractIn 2009 a leaded bronze vessel foot topped by a figure of Harpocrates was found in a Neronian or early Flavian levelling deposit on the University of Reading's excavations in Insula IX at Silchester. Comparanda point to the foot originally having been fitted to a vessel for cooking or for heating liquids that was made in Campania in the Tiberian or early Claudian period. Its recovery is further evidence that a high-status early Roman building was located close to Insula IX.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Archaeology,History,Archaeology,Classics