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Description: | Complete, cast copper alloy Roman vessel escutcheon. The escutcheon is drop shaped in plan and sub-triangular in section. Towards the broad end of the object is an integral circular loop set at right angles to the body. The object is hollow and holds a lead core that fills the mount evenly to its rim. This was the material with which it was soldered to the copper alloy vessel. The original surface of the escutcheon survives only partially, with an even mid green patina. The exposed surfaces are mid green with patches of light green. It is undecorated. The lead core is grey and white. The escutcheon is 54.92mm long, 21.5mm wide and 13.56mm thick. The loop is 20.72mm high, 17.76mm wide and has an internal diameter of 9.6mm. The object weighs 40.68g. Roman escutcheons or vessel mounts are often decorative, unlike the basic and plain example recorded here. Den Boesterd, 1956 (Description of the collections in the Rijksmuseum G.M.KAM at Nijmegen: The bronze vessels, numbers 189 and 191) illustrates examples of drop shaped or leaf shaped mounts. The escutcheon takes the form of a body of a bird, with the bird?s neck and head bent backward onto the body to form the loop, through which a ring was fitted. Another example from the same catalogue (197) has the bird?s neck and head replaced with a plain loop, but the body is still decorated. The example recorded here is clearly something along the same lines, but reduced to its most basic form. | 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 | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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