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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman seal box. This object represents the lower half of a seal box. It is circular in plan with an upturned flange 90 degrees to the base. This flange is partial, only surviving for approximately half the circumference of the base. However it is still possible to see one complete square cut out and the side of its opposing cut out, where the cord would have been passed through. The base is pierced with five circular holes, one central with four around. One of the outer holes is incomplete where the base is damaged. To the rear of the base, and extending from the surviving flange, is one integral transverse lug with its piercing blocked with copper alloy corrosion products. The other lug is entirely missing. The object is abraded and has a light green patina. It has a diameter of 21.34mm (excluding the lug), is 3.86mm high where the flange survives and weighs 2.35g. It dates from the 1st-3rd century. A number of examples of seal boxes can be seen in Crummy, 1983, figure 106. | 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
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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