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Description: | The lower valve of an ornamental Roman seal-case. The object is essentially rectangular, 17mm long by 14mm wide, but with a triangular eversion in the midst of each of three sides, creating a geometric or quasi-floriated outline. At the centre of the fourth side two small parallel lugs issue by which the upper valve of the box was attached to the lower and on which hinge the two pivoted. The perforations of the lugs have worn through so as to render them inoperative, probably in antiquity. The walls of the case or valve are turned outwards (as if chamfered, seen from below), so that whatever was cast within this little case might easily be removed. The height of these walls is 3.5mm. At the centre of each of the two everted triangular processes on the long sides there is a u-shaped indentation, showing where a thread or wire was passed through the sealing material. The basal plate of the case carries three roughly equal perforations arranged as the corners of an equilateral triangle: one, on the central axis, is just behind the frontal process of the case, and two near the sides are set back slightly from the central cross-axis towards the back or hinge end. The metal is presumably bronze but has a greyish appearance.
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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