bowl
- Museum number
- 1853,0411.5
- Description
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A dark-grey, convex, pewter bowl with wide, high-flanged rim and splayed pedestal. Two lathe scores remain as a decorative feature following the curved edge of the rim. Within the interior of the bowl are abrasion patches perhaps reflecting small 'stir' marks that spread up the sidewalls. On the underside of the rim is the neatly incised graffito 'LICINIVS'.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 105 millimetres
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Height: 51 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Three pewter cups or bowls
Icklingham, Suffolk
4th century AD
One pedestal bowl has incised rings on a flanged rim, under which is the incised name LICINIVS, probably the bowl's owner. The conical cup or beaker is unusual but was, occasionally, also made in silver. The third cup has cast raised beads on its rim that recall the hollowed beads often worked on the borders of contemporary silver plate.
P&E 1853 4-11 5, 11; 1894 2-24 43
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Lee type 2b variants (Lee 2009, fig 79) with parallels with high rim flanges (2b (ii)) and pedestal base (2b (iii)) from Appleford (Brown 1973, fig 1, nos 10 and 11), Hockwold cum Wilton, Hoard 2 (Gurney 1986, fig 95, No 8 and 10) and with a cast foot from Baldock (Stead and Rigby 1986, fig 63). Similar in form to the ceramic Ritterling 12 sequence and in glass (Grose 1989, 304, no 415). Pewter examples are generally attributed to the 4th century (Lee 2009, 174). (Smith 2011, no. 15).
- Location
- On display (G49/dc18)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine
- Condition
- The vessel is in good condition despite some pitting to the rim and cracking where the rim joins the side walls.
- Acquisition notes
- One of fourteen bowls from Icklingham purchased from Edward Acton
in 1853.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1853,0411.5
