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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Roman seal box, the base has a small area of damage on one edge and is no longer prefectly aligned with the lid but projects from under it along one side. This seal box is oval in shape measuring 25mm in length and 15mm in width. The lid is hinged and held in place via a lug which is held between two lugs by a copper-alloy rivet. Both the box and its lid have projecting rounded terminal knopsat their tips. The box has four evenly spaced circular holes through its base and opposing U-shaped notches in the centre of its sides. The lid is decorated with an outer band of seven circles with indentations in their centres, these could possibly have originally held enamel although no trace of it can now be seen. In the centre there are two concentric grooves which again could have originally held enamel. Seal boxes served to protect the (often impressed) lump of wax which held together the bindings of a packet or wrting tablet, they are mostly 2nd or 3rd century (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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