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Description: | Roman copper-alloy leaf-shaped seal box with a knobbed terminal and an human head cast in high relief. The head is approximately 6mm at its maximum height and is enclosed by a flat and undecorated border. The head is cast in provincial style with a sub-oval face and a thick straight fringe defined by short vertical nicks, a prominent brow ridge and a wedge-shaped nose which is barely defined in profile. The mouth with moulded lips, is slightly open. The eyes are almond-shaped with the pupils defined by central dots. The reverse of the lid is hollowed and undecorated. The base has two opposing notches in the walls to allow the cord (attached to a document) to enter the box and be set into the wax contained in the box and three perforations in the bottom. There is a single hinge loop at the rounded end of the lid (at the top of the head) and a rounded knop at the pointed end. This knop has a small protrusion on the underside, which fits into a hollow on a corresponding rounded knop on the base. The reverse of the lid is hollowed and undecorated.
There are three circular piercings in the bottom, and a double hinge loop at the rounded end. There is currently a short length of modern copper alloy securing the lid to the base through the hinge. The finder still has the original pin. There is a small area of damage on the left edge of the lid. The object has a fine brown-green patina. It is 33.04mm long, 20.25mm wide, the thickness of the base is 4.76mm, the thickness of the lid is 6.45mm and weighs (including modern pin fragment). | 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: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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