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Description: | Copper alloy Roman seal box lid. Seal boxes were used to protect wax seals that were attached to documents whilst on their travels. Often the box would have holes in the bottom where it was attached to the message, the wax seal was then made inside the box. The lid is lozenge shaped with a decorated front surface. The edges of the lid have a slight lip so that the underneath is hollow. One point of the lid has broken away, this is probably where the hinge once was. The front is decorated with a large ring and dot at the centre, this looks to have had blue enamel in it although most of this has worn away. On either side of this is a single raised dot and the background is red enamel. Around the edge of the lid there is a border with remnants of blue enamel. The lid weighs 5.64g and measures 40.08mm in length, 20.01mm in width and 4.04mm in thickness. There are a number of similar examples of complete seal boxes in the Roman Castleford report, Vol.I 'The small finds', Fig. 37, Nos. 493 & 498.
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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