Terracotta beaker with painted inscription

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late 2nd–mid-3rd century CE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

[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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 2nd–mid-3rd century CE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman, Rhenish

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917