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Description: | The lower half of a copper alloy Roman seal box. This is circular with four circular holes in the base arranged in a lozenge shape. At one end is a double pierced lug for attachment of the hinged upper part. The broken off lug of this upper part remains inside these two lugs, held in place by an iron pin. At the opposing end is a hollow circular lug. There are two opposing U-shaped openings in the top edge on the other axis of the base.
Seal boxes were used to contain the seals attached to Roman correspondence. Circular seal boxes were classified as Type 2 by Crummy (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: | 100
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rosalind Tyrrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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