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Manneville-la-Pipard: Gallo-Roman vase in shape of head (1st c.AD)
Manneville-la-Pipard: vase in shape of head (Caen Mus.Normandie; photo Athena Review 2013)
Excavated
in the 1990s, Manneville-la-Pipard revealed several Gallo-Roman
buildings including a bathhouse and dwellings (Coulthard et al.1997).
As the site was on a Roman road linking Lisieux with the coast,
it may have been a military outpost (statio).
This anthropomorphic vase found at the site, made of terracotta with a lead glaze, represents a head of Late Hellenistic type. It is dated to the first century AD.
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