Roman Glass Vessel Collection

Displaying an possibly unfinished scene composed of robed warriors or other figures wearing Phrygian caps, wide tunics with segmenta, oriental trousers (anaxyrida) and tugging on a rope; later attachment loop to the reverse. 163 grams, 10.1 cm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

The scene probably represents an episode of the Trojan cycle, with the Trojans (usually represented in Late Antiquity with a Phrygian cap, wide sleeved tunics and Persian-style trousers) dragging the wooden horse inside the walls of Troy. In the late Roman Empire the Trojan cycle became often the subject of artistic representations, such as the famous Ilias Ambrosiana now preserved in Milan, or the miniatures of the Vergilius Romanus.

Comprising a section of the rim and inner wall of a mortarium vessel; stamped 'CAMV' within a rectangular panel to the upper face of the rim; repaired. 263 grams, 19 cm



Found Bedfordhire, 1980s. Property of a Kempston, UK gentleman.

The abbreviation of CAMV for the ancient town of Camulodunum (modern Colchester, Essex) is well attested and commonly seen on the coins of the Celtic king Cunobelin.

Each composed of an ear hoop with hook-and-eye closure, rectangular box setting inlaid with green glass, faux ropework flange, two chain link dangles below featuring pearl beads. 3.15 grams total, 29 mm each



From the collection of a Cambridge lady, 1990s.