Terracotta beaker with painted inscription
[Group label with 17.194.843 and 17.194.844]
The white painted letters give cheery exhortations appropriate for a drinking party. One reads REPLE (fill it up again!), another MISCE (mix another drink!), and the third AVETE (cheers!). Beakers such as these were made principally at Trier; examples have been found at sites throughout the middle and lower Rhineland and also in Britain.
The white painted letters give cheery exhortations appropriate for a drinking party. One reads REPLE (fill it up again!), another MISCE (mix another drink!), and the third AVETE (cheers!). Beakers such as these were made principally at Trier; examples have been found at sites throughout the middle and lower Rhineland and also in Britain.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta beaker with painted inscription
- Period: Mid-Imperial
- Date: late 2nd–mid-3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Rhenish
- Medium: Terracotta; Moselkeramik
- Dimensions: H. 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm); diameter 3 1/16 in. (7.9 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.845
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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