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Description: | Roman seal box lid. It is circular with a protruding suspension loop which has now broken. The lid has a lip to its lower surface so that it would rest snugly on the missing lower box. The lid's obverse is decorated with a geometric design. Briefly, the design consists of a network of circles within circles, pellets in high relief, and linear ornament. The entire design is enclosed within a pair of marginal circles. At the centre is a small circle (2mm diameter), containing a pellet, with four single pellets arranged equidistantly outside the circle, to form a cross motif. Set out from this cross, through its diagonals, are four large (5mm diameter) circles. Each of these circles contains a smaller circle, divided up with radial spokes. In each of the six segments produced by these spokes is a single raised pellet. Finally, lying in the interstices between the circles and the margins are three 2mm circles, each containing a pellet. Finally, the gaps between all these designs are filled with closely set linear designs in high relief. The overall appearance is of a densely decorated, regularly designed surface.
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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