Bronze jug

Bronze jug

This small pear-shaped bronze jug with an oval opening with a bended rim – more on the front side in order to ease the pouring out of the liquid – 1 cm wide, is dated to the 1st c. After casting it was additionally processed on a wheel; the ornament – a line of dots with an egg-shaped ornament below – was made by chasing. A handle was subsequently attached to the jug, aldo cast and chased. On the handle top, above the vessel rim, there is a herm – a portrait, most probably of a woman. The upper joints of the handle are in the form of swans’ heads.

The handle is decorated by simple incised straight lines. Its lower end finishes in a satire’s head, which is in the same time the part of the handle attached to the body of the vessel.