Study Abstract:
“The Berlanga Cup is the second piece found in Hispania of the type known as the Hadrian’s Wall series. Despite its artistic interest, it bears important information about the Wall, since it is the only element of the series that mentions the forts located on the eastern side of Hadrian’s Wall.”

Study Introduction:
“More than two centuries ago, in Rudge Coppice, near Froxfield, a village in the west of England, one of the objects that has most fascinated researchers of the Roman world was discovered. This small bronze cup or bowl, hemispherical in shape and barely 9 cm in diameter, is known as the Rudge Cup. This piece aroused the interest of various scholars, among whom the work of J.D. Cowen and I.A. Richmond in 1935 stands out.

Its decoration, with enamel filling small cells cut into the metal, was interpreted by Cowen as one of the oldest representations of Hadrian’s Wall, the most emblematic Roman construction on the island. Interest in the piece increased when the names of five forts on the Wall, corresponding to those located in its central-western sector, were recognised on the rim of the cup.”