From Traprain Law, East Lothian
This piece of a silver flask was found at Traprain Law in East Lothian. It was part of a hoard containing over 150 silver objects, mainly tableware, buried between 410 and 425 AD. All but a few of the objects were fragmentary.
The piece is ornamented with a classical scene executed in repoussé technique. The male figure is interpreted as the god Pan, his pipes at this feet, pursuing a figure. To his right is a figure interpreted as a hermaphrodite.
Themes from classical Greek and Latin mythology and literature were often portrayed on late Roman metalwork.
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