Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026REPLE! Fill it up again! With the warmer weather upon us we wanted to raise this celebratory motto beaker on display at the Roman Painted House #Dover Although I wouldn't recommend filling this particular beaker up... (1/4) 172
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Motto beakers had cheery Latin exhortations painted in white and were used for social gatherings. The surviving decoration on this example has the letters R, E, and what appears to be the top part of a P which could be part of the exhortation REPLE ‘Fill it up again’. (2/4) 100
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The form is a called black slipped ware which reflects how the terracotta beaker is decorated by dipping the clay vessel into a black coloured slip, a thin solution of clay suspended in water, before firing it. The beaker is thought to be from the Moselle Valley near Trier 180AD-250AD. (3/4) 110
