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Description: | Roman copper alloy and enamel seal box lid, 35mm long, 19mm wide and 2mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 4.09grams. The object consists of a lozenged (rhombus) shaped plate, which has a small circular terminal at one corner. The upper surface of this has two small circular protrusions and the reverse contains traces of the hinge. The surface contains a central circular depression which contains a smaller circular enamel cell. This motif is surrounded by eight small raised circles, which are now empty but may have contained enamel. The rest of the field is filled with blue enamel. The object terminates with a small sub rectangular protrusion, which is the broken remains of the catch. Nina Crummy suggests that seal boxes with enamel could date to the 2nd or 3rd century (1983, 103).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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