spoon
- Museum number
- 1848,0601.10
- Description
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Spoon; silver; pear-shaped bowl, terminating in a vertical disc connected with the bottom by a keel-like ridge; the handle is attached to the upper edge of the disc, and is square in section near the bowl, the rest of it round with turned parallel lines at each end, terminating in a baluster finial; on back of bowl, a symmetrical foliate design and round the rim a band of loop-coils; on one side of the disc a monogram within a wreath, nielloed; on the other a formal plant; along the bowl interior and on the square section of the handle a hexameter is engraved, once nielloed, and on one side of the handle an inscription, partly nielloed.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 34.60 millimetres
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Length: 265 millimetres
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Weight: 75 grammes
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Width: 43.50 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The four Greek hexameters of nos.387-390 are found together in an Anonymous Epigram on the Seven Sages; the second parts of the inscriptions, upon the sides of the handles, do not appear to be directly connected with the first; a spoon with Greek inscriptions, probably belonging to the same set, is in the Salle des Bijoux in the Museum of the Louvre.
See also 1848,0601.11-12
See also 1886,0318.4
See also 1886,0709.1
See also AF.379
- Location
- On display (G41/dc14/sA)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1848,0601.10