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Description: | Roman mount; cast copper alloy probable vessel escutcheon of late Roman date. The mount is roughly leaf shaped with a short stem extending from the rounded end. The stem is curved over and has a break just after the curve. The mount is decorated on the front face with moulded decoration leaving voids which may have originally contained enamel, although no trace now survives. The decoration is of a small, lozenge-shaped void at the top near the stem, surmounting two large, round panels. Beneath these the moulded decoration is in the form of a diamond with a circular void in the centre and then a spur leading down from the diamond to the apex of the leaf-shaped plate. The reverse has a single, sub-circular indent around the middle.
Length 37.2mm, width 17.2mm, thickness 2.8mm, weight 7.49g
Sally Worrell of University College London comments "[I] have looked through Bruce-Mitford's 'Late Celtic Hanging Bowls' as it has a small section on Roman hanging bowls and also Den Boesterd's book on bronze vessels and I [suggest that] this is a single hook escutcheon from a 2nd-3rd century deep-walled basin as it's straight and without the curve that you'd expect on a hanging bowl mount" | Subjects: | vessel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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