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Description: | Tiny circular copper-alloy seal-box lid, 17 mm in diameter. It has an engraved design of an eight-petalled flower, each slender petal ending in an expanded circle. Three of the petals are filled with a silvery substance, perhaps mineralised niello (black silver sulphide). There is a small circular perforation in the centre. To one side is a single broken hinge lug. The edges are turned down to form flanges 2 mm wide. The lid has a very dark grey patina which suggests that it originally had a white-metal coating; together with the niello it would have had a smart black-and-silver appearance. Seal boxes were used to protect the wax seals on Roman documents. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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