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LOT 0751
Large Romano-British 'Viroconium Cornoviorum' Funerary Urn
LANDS OF THE CORNOVII, 1ST CENTURY A.D.
14 in. (4.45 kg, 35.5cm).
With narrow base and shallow shoulder, everted rim to the broad mouth; with inked museum number 'E1029' and accession ticket 'Roman Cremation (inside jar) 1st Cent. A.D. Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) Lands of the Cornovii'; professionally repaired.
Provenance
Found Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum), UK, in 1921.
From a West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.
Accompanied by a handwritten identification card with '1921' to verso.
Literature
Cf. Carr, G., Excarnation to Cremation: Continuity or Change? in Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond, Oxford, 2007, for discussion of usage.
Footnotes
The Cornovii inhabited an area of the (modern) English West Midlands, from Staffordshire to Chester, centered on modern Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum). This was among the largest administrative centres in Roman Britain, and drew its wealth in part from salt production and the mining of lead, copper and silver.
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LOT 0751
Large Romano-British 'Viroconium Cornoviorum' Funerary Urn
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