Archaeological Museum of Bologna

The so-called thin walled pottery, produced with clear or gray dough clay and characterized by the extreme thinness of the walls, is part of the fine table pottery. With this type of ceramic are made small containers, usually externally decorated, used mainly for drinking.

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Aco beakers were part of an extensive and highly successful production of fine ware in northern Italy between the Late Republic and the Tiberian period. This is an example of the typical decoration of this class of glasses. In the out side there is the stamp of the craftsman Buccio Norbani (Buccio, slave or freedman of Norbanus), frequent in north-italic laboratory.

Provenance: Palagi Collection
Datation: I1st century AD
Material: pottery
Dimensions: height cm 11,2; diam cm 7,2
Inventory #: Rom 1431