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Photograph: An Etruscan bronze cauldron of about 550 BCE. The round body has a lid and hanging rings, with blotches of blue-green patina on its surface.
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ArchiveCeltic · Vessel
Cauldron of the Dagda
Coire Dagdae
It never runs dry, however many eat. None left it unsatisfied.
- Owner
- The Dagda, god of the Tuatha Dé Danann
- Maker
- Unknown
- First record
- Book of Invasions (Lebor Gabála Érenn)1100
- Gallery
- Celtic
Notes on the photograph 3
Story
The Dagda, "the good god," is a father-figure among the Tuatha Dé Danann. He owned a great club, one end of which killed and the other revived, and a cauldron that never ran dry.
The cauldron from Murias never emptied however many people ate from it, and no one is said to have left it unsatisfied.
When the Fomorians mockingly made him an enormous quantity of porridge and threatened to kill him if he failed to finish it, the Dagda ladled it all down. The Irish could not think of the cauldron of plenty apart from the Dagda.
The object in the photo
The photograph shows Bronze cauldron(Etruscan, ca. 550 BCE), a real museum object that evokes the legendary artifact.
