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Description: | A worn and incomplete probable Roman seal box lid. This lid appears to have originally been lozenge shaped but only one edge survives, the others are all damaged and worn. It measures 24mm by 28mm in size. There is a circular hole through the centre of the lid and the front face is decorated with a circle of what appear to have originally have been small lozenge shaped cells with traces of enamel within them. Outside this, radiating to the edges of the lid are oval shaped cells again with possible traces of enamel within them, the original colours of the enamel no longer survive.
On the back face at one tip there is the remains of an integral hinge formed of two parallel loops, projecting from the back face at right angles. The central corners of the back face have integral cylindrical projections which are again incomplete and worn and may have fitted into mirror image hollows in the base of the seal box.
Lozenge shaped seal box lids decorated with inlaid enamel are known from elsewhere in Suffolk, and from Twinstead, Essex (see SF-EBA7D1). Nina Crummy suggests that seal boxes with enamel could date to the 2nd or 3rd century (1983, 103). | 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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