Boscoreale - silver cup B decorated with skeletons

Trésor de Boscoreale : gobelet aux squelettes

[50 BCE to 25 CE]

found in Boscoreale - 1895 (villa de la Pisanella)

Inv-No: MNC 1981 ; Bj 1923

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Two silver cups decorated with skeletons. The two silver cups have similar and complementary repoussé decoration depicting the skeletons of tragic and comic poets and famous Greek philosophers, beneath a garland of roses.

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