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Description: | Incomplete lid from a Roman seal box. This seal box lid is circular with straight sides. Around the edge of the bottom of the lid are the remains of a flange, 90 degrees to the sides, which had a series of lugs, on the same plain, running around its perimeter, of which only two now partially remain. The upper rim of the lid, which is chipped and damaged, is decorated with hatched lines. The lid top is further decorated with a central dot of white enamel, now cracked, which is surrounded by a two complete concentric circles of enamel also cracked. The inner most circle is degraded and almost black in colour, and the outer most is bright blue. Within this blue enamel circle is a ring of impressed dots that were presumably also filled with enamel. The reverse of the lid is concave with a flat bottom. There is a centrally raised circular line at the centre, which may have been caused by the casting as opposed to decoration. The patina of the object is dark browny grey to both sides. The damaged rim and some of the break surfaces show as creamy white suggesting this damage occurred in the recent past. The inner side of the lid also shows traces of red bronze disease. The lid has a diameter of 16.08mm, with an additional 5.9mm being the flange. It is 4.66mm high, 4.26mm thick and weighs 3.72g. examples of seal boxes can be seen in Crummy, 1983, figure 106. This seal box lid probably dates to the 2nd or 3rd century. | 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: | 100
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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