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Description: | Lead pointed ovate or vesica-shaped seal matrix of personal seal, 24.6mm wide and 35.5mm long, thickness 3mm. The incised face shows a large central fleur-de-lis with a spear like central leaflet and the two side-leaves strongly arched back either side of a central stem. This motif is apparently intended to form a monogrammatic letter M, with the central stem forming the upright of the letter in the centre. The foot of this stem is feathered or trifurcate. The inscription commences at the pointed end of the vesica close to the tip of the central leaflet, and reads S': MARIE.DE hO. On the reverse the matrix has a pierced loop (Total thickness of object at this point 8mm)and from it extends a pattern like leaf veining, with a central rib and three pointed subsidiary branches forking from it, symmetrically on either side. The same finder has reported another very similar seal-matrix for the same person (or with the same inscription) from another locality very near to this findspot. See Database F72872. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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