Object Description
An exceptional Ancient Roman red slipware jug from North Africa. The vessel seats on a short foot and features a wide, pyriform body, tapering neck, decorated with one raised drop-stopping ridge, ending in a flat rim. One applied handle extends from the neck to the vessel’s body. The handle is decorated to the outside with an impressed geometrical motive. The jug’s body is also enriched with a decorative motif, mirrored on both sides, modelled in relief consisting of a gladiator fighting a leaping lion, topped by an arched festoon and sided by palm branches.
Date: Circa 1st-3rd Century AD