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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy and enamel Roman seal box lid. This lid is sub-circular in plan, although much of the edge is corroded away, with the remains of a projecting squared hinge. There is a circular hole in the centre of the lid and the front face is decorated with two concentric circles running around the edge made up of cells filled with emamel. The inner circle is made up of square shaped cells with either black or white enamel inside. The outer circle is made up of triangular or rectangular cells filled with black or white enamel. Some of the cells are missing the enamel.On the back face are the remains of 4 integrally cast cylindrical projections which are incomplete and worn and may have fitted into mirror image hollows in the base of the seal box.Nina Crummy suggests that seal boxes with enamel could date to the 2nd or 3rd century (1983, 103). Similar seal box lids can be seen on the database: SF-C7E993, ESS-2775D6, ESS-735F38.
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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