skillet
- Museum number
- 1814,0705.24
- Description
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Copper alloy skillet. The handle and rim are damaged, and only fragments of the thin pan wall are still attached. For the pan base and wall fragment, which once belonged but are now separate, see 1814,0706.25. Corrosion products on the upper face of the handle at its
junction with the pan appear to have derived from another
copper-alloy object corroded to the pan, perhaps one of the
bath saucers nested into the vessel and touching at that point.
Otherwise, the original surface is generally intact and clear of
corrosion and accretions. The underside of the large handle is
plain. A close examination revealed no trace of a punched
ownership mark. The margin of its upper face is embellished
with a deep incuse groove, which tapers away onto the pan
rim and merges with the peripheral groove of the discoidal
handle end. The faintly impressed stamp near the handle end
is set in a rectangular cartouche running axially towards the
pan. Neither end is now visible, but the reading ]CONP[ can
be made out. As R.P. Wright observed (Britannia 1,1970:
311, no. 23) there is no name starting with these four letters in
Kajanto's Cognomina, and the stamp is still a unicum. How
ever, a saucepan handle from Oberhof, Thiiringen is stamped
COM[ (Willers 1907: 90, no. 171). The handle disc has a
worn corded border and a large circular eye. One side is badly
eaten by corrosion. Below the lightly convex overhanging rim
is a band of punched decoration on the bulging pan wall. The
design, a row of small rings above a broad palisade, is the
same as that found on some of the pans stamped by P.Cipius
Polybius (see e.g. Willers 1907: 77, fig. 44, no.l). Tinning of
the inner wall face extends over the rim and a corresponding
distance onto the handle. A lst-2nd century AD type.
- Production date
- 1stC(late)-2ndC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 192 millimetres
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Length: 348 millimetres
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Weight: 378.10 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For base see 1814,0705.25.
- Location
- On display (G49/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1814,0705.24
