Roman face urn

Terracotta
Roman, ca. 1st/2nd century AD
H. 7.1cm

A Rheinland-Pfalz, Boppard, Romano-Germanic face pot, with crude, exaggerated features. Larger face pots were typically used as an urn for cremation. Such face urns were locally produced in Britain and the Central European continent during the Roman period.

Cf. G. Braithwaite, Romano-British Face Pots and Head Pots, Britannia (15) 1984, pp. 99-131.

Condition: Intact

Provenance: ex. private collection I. N., Berlin, Germany, 1980/90

Item reference: CL1475