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Chariot Race and Gladiator Beaker 050b   Price £23 each

Mould-blown beakers from our Wood-fired Furnace We are now making Mould-blown Beakers at our Wood-fired Furnace. See this page for all of our Wood-fired Furnace vessels. In particular, see this page for our Circus Beakers and stock levels. We do not make Chariot Race Beakers to order - they are only available from stock on the website. For stock levels of all of our mould-blown beakers, see this page.

The upper frieze shows four bigae (two-horse chariots) racing. Above each chariot, the drivers are named:

CEGAS (Gegas)
IERAX (Hierax)
PYRAME (Pyramus)
CRESCES

The lower frieze shows two pairs of gladiators:

PETRAITES ('Rocky')
PRVDES ('The Careful One')
HORIES ('Rising Sun')
HERMES

No complete vessel of this type is known Our reproduction is reconstructed from fragments found at Villeneuve and Montans in France, and Bern and Vindonissa in Switzerland.

Height: 8.7cm   Diameter of body: 8.4cm   Capacity: 260ml

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