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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman seal box lid. This lid is lozenge shaped, although the tips of its two longitudinal terminals are missing due to wear and old breaks, it measures 25mm by 25mm in surviving size. The two surviving corners of the lozenge have rounded knops projecting from them, these knops would probably have fitted into mirror image notches in the base half of the seal box. The front face of this seal box lid is decorated with inlaid enamel, there is a central circle with a cross dividing it into four quarters each of these has blue enamel within them. Radiating outwards from four sides of this central circle there are four lozenge shaped recesses again inlaid with blue enamel. In between these there are zigzag edged panels, alternately empty and inlaid with reddish orange enamel. The sides of the lid survive, although worn and are at right angles to the lid. This seal box lid is similar to lids found at South Shields, which are also lozenge shaped with inlaid red and blue enamel patterns ( A Jones, R Miket 1984, 153-154, no 376-77). It has been suggested that due to the presence of the enamel it is perhaps likely that this seal box is 2nd or 3rd century in date (Crummy 1983, 103).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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