Roman Pottery Cylindrical Jug

Decorated with three registers in relief depicting a hunt and stamped 'naisivs navisivs', the mark of the workshop. Two vertical trifid handles.

h. 27.5 cm

3rd century AD

Terracotta

Provenance

Tajan Archeologie Sale, Drouot, Paris, November 13, 2001, lot 281
Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries from Tajan Archeologie sale, Drouot, December 15, 2005, lot 385
Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, October 22, 2008, TPU02

Publications

J. W. Salomonson, Spätrömische rote Tonware mit Reliefverzierung aus nordafrikanischen Werkstätten, Babesch 44, 1969, p. 87, fig. 123
Tajan, Archeologie Égyptienne, Orientale, Grecque et Étrusque Romaine, Préhistorique et Nationale Sale, Paris, November 13, 2001, lot 281
Tajan, Archeologie Sale, Drouot Paris, December 15, 2005, lot 385
J.M Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2007, vol. XVIII, p. 64, lot 151
M. Eiland, "Materials and manufacture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 169, fig. 22
Katia Schörle, L'armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, SilvanaEditorale, 2019, p. 208

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
L'armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, Musée de l'Arles Antique, Arles, France, December 15, 2018 — April 22, 2019

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