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Description: | A copper alloy Roman seal box lid dating to the period AD 43-400. The lid is principally circular in shape with a triangular section extending from the circle to form the catch. At the top, there is a single loop that extends back and would have formed part of the hinge attaching the front of the seal box to the back. The edge of the lid has a small knop on either side (at about four and eight o'clock). There is also a small triangular shaped knop at the terminal of the triangular catch.The lid is decorated with ten champlevee triangles filled alternately with red and white enamel (some remains) and a further triangle filled with white enamel on the triangular catch. The ten triangles surround an incised circle which has two circles of relief, one zigzag and the central one, plain. The plain circle is filled with white enamel.The back of the lid is plain but there is a circle of white enamel in the centre indicating a hole through the central plain circle. Cf Read, B (2001) Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, plate 48 no 577.
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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