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Description: | Complete Roman copper alloy seal box, probably of 2nd or 3rd century date. The seal box retains both its base and lid and has corroded shut. The box is lozenge-shaped with small protruding side lugs. The lid is slightly convex and is elaborately decorated with enamel. The decoration is composed of a central whirligig device, probably containing blue enamel. The central device is flanked on each corner of the lid with a pointed leaf containing green enamel. Between each of the leaves is a rectangular cell, also inset with green enamel, possibly a little more turquoise in colour than the leaves. Elsewhere on the lid, blue enamel survives within cells set between the decorative devices. A sort arm extends beneath the sides at the rear to a hinge with an iron axis bar. The sides of lid overlap with the sides of the base, and both are interpreted at the midpoints (beneath the side lugs) by a sub-rectangular opening, which allowed the binding cord to pass through. The base has four circular perforations arranged in a chevron. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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