Метална Ваза

Cup with narrow mouth and arched overflow, narrow neck, body with maximum diameter in the shoulder area and raised pedestal. The handle, raised, shows in the upper part a figurative group, which depicts a satyr with a cheerful face holding in his arms the child Bacchus, and in the lower part a figurine representing a young Bacchus. In length, the handle was decorated with embossed bacchic symbols (kantharos, garlands, leaf and flower vines, a syrinx). The figures and ornaments were made of bronze and are inlaid with silver. Mugs of this type were usually part of a handwashing service, used in the sacred environment before the sacrificial officer and in the profane environment during the meal.

Dimensions: Height = 24 cm; Maximum diameter = 12.8 cm. It has small damaged surfaces.

Place of discovery: Kallatis - Mangalia (Constanța County, Romania); tumulus, in an incineration tomb. Collection of the Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța; Inv. no. 4186.

Dating: second half of the 1^st century AD - 2^nd century AD.

Bibliography: Mihai Irimia, Bronzuri figurate [Figured bronzes], Constanța, Muzeul Regional de Arheologie Dobrogea,1966, p. 27-29; Liviu Petculescu (ed.), Antique Bronzes in Romania. Exhibition Catalogue, Bucharest, The National History Museum of Romania, 2003, p.145, no. 212.