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Possible, the coins were first place in a textile bag as fragment were discovered in cauldron. Height: 26 cm; diameter of the body: 30.8 cm; diameter of the bottom: 22.6 cm; diameter of the opening: 25 cm. As we can see today it has a very marked profile, almost cylindrical in its lower part and at the rim, with a belly bulge halfway up. The rim, thick, flares slightly. This artefact was made in one piece by hammering from a plate blank from the foundry. There is no trace of any supporting feet or loop attachment; however, it could be fixed at a circle of metal enclosing the neck. There are traces of many repairing works that indicate repeated use; the smith made them by placing small plates of hammered metal inside the container that he fixed using rivets. The inside of the cauldron was probably tinned.
This plate, oval, slightly concave, with a slight rim, is equipped with a small, low foot. It is made in bronze, covered with a silver foil. The bottom is decorated with three decorative nets, which take up the elliptical outline of the foot. On the reverse, inside the ellipse near the foot, are two inscriptions. One inscription is punched with dots and there are three versions of reading: a) D(is) MAN(ibus) IVL(ius) REGIAN(us); b) D(is) MAN(ibus) IVL(i) REGIAN(i donum); D M AN(nius) IVL(ius) REGIAN(us). The second inscription, a graphite reads SENICIAE.
A. Hostein (24.08.16); updated by C. Gazdac (May 2018).
