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LOT 0859
Roman Bronze Miniature Flagon
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (10.9 grams, 42 mm).
With piriform body, short neck, everted rim and strap handle, circumferential bands to the body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2010.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Cf. Beutler, F. et al., Der Adler Roms. Carnuntum und der Armee der Cäsaren, Bad-Deutsch Altenberg, 2017, item 661, for similar type in terracotta.
FootnotesThe small size of this bronze container suggests that it was intended as a toilette object, or as an oil vessel for athletes, generally associated with a strigil. Its could also have been used as a balsamarium.
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