Objects from Roman Daily Life

Among the few utility articles found in Kalkriese belong parts of clay vessels, a spoon (cochlear), two iron tumbler lock slide keys, and a bit pin/peg, bronze seal boxes, gaming counters, various lead weights, the treble-armed hook of a scale, and various dome-headed rivets.

Two iron tumbler lock slide keys with a bent/curled bit and five or seven bit pins. 
Left: Two bronze handles from combination locks. By means of small handles of that kind, the locking device on the underside of the lock plate was moved. Especially because the handle could move the locking device when the former was in a certain position, greater security was gained than in the case of only lock and key. – Length of the key: 7.8 cm.

One-handled jug from Haltern. Height: 18 cm. – Westphalian Museum for Archaeology, Muenster.

Spoon with a rounded handle. Handle is bent. Silver. – Length: 11.3 cm.

Ceramic fragments from Kalkriese. 
Left: Fragment of the rim of a one-handled jug. Soft, beige-white clay, lightly _(unterschnitten?), inside fluted, oblique rim (Form Haltern 48). – Diam. of rim: 5.0 cm.
Below right: Handle of an oil lamp made of white clay with remnants of reddish-brown coating. – Thickness: 0.6 cm.
Above right: Unidentifiable shards.

Artist’s reconstruction of a lock bolt with a tumbler lock slide key in accordance with the original parts from the J. J. Schmid collection (Römermuseum Augst; Inv. no. 1924.451). – Remaining length of the bolt: 11.9 cm. Remaining length of the nine-pronged key: 6.6 cm.

Three seal boxes made of bronze with lead figurative relief. In the lower portion (lower left corner) of the seal box depicted in the lower right corner, remnants of wax and string have been preserved. – Height of the seal box in the upper left corner: 2.1 cm.

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