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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2970252, member: 56859&quot;]Unsurprisingly, I suppose, there are little differences between the vessels, particular from emperor to emperor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, that give me hope that a real-life example still exists somewhere in a museum basement.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to know more about it-- material from which it is made, details of the design, function.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my coin, the top projection of the handle has a somewhat uraeus-like curve.&nbsp; The inverted drops don&#039;t evoke uraei on my coin or on the Augustus examples.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerooinochoe-jpg.726892/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t make out anything concrete on the body of this coin&#039;s vessel.&nbsp; The plate in Dattari (for a Nero diobol; #287) shows a bit more detail, but those details are different from the bits which can be discerned on my coin and I don&#039;t think it is due to wear:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screen-shot-2018-01-16-at-9-35-44-am-png.727221/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Written description in Dattari (translated by Google):&nbsp; </p><p>&quot;...on the lid five uraei, above the front body, crown of horns, disk and feathers&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing projecting right on the vessel body looks rather like the crown of Isis on the Dattari coin, but nothing like that crown on my coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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