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dish
Object Type
dish
Museum number
1848,0601.13
Description
Shallow dish; silver; round at the bottom; inside, with arms extending to the edge, a gilt cross, and in the centre a double circle enclosing a punched and nielloed monogram; on the bottom are the impressions of three stamps, all imperfect, one cruciform twice repeated, one rectangular, and one with an arched end; the cruciform stamp has in the centre a monogram of the same shape, and at the ends of the letters a name.
Cultures/periods
Early Byzantine
Production date
610-641
Production place
Made in:
Constantinople
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Lâpseki
Materials
silver
niello
gold
Technique
gilded
nielloed
punched
stamped
Dimensions
Diameter:
160 millimetres
Weight:
191.50 grammes
Weight:
6 ounces
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See also 1886,0318.2 See also 1848,0601.1 See also 1899,0425.1 See also 1899,0425.3
Bibliographic references
Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
(379)
Kent & Painter 1977 / Wealth of the Roman World. Gold and Silver, AD 300-700
(150)
Dodd 1961 / Byzantine Silver Stamps
(52)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
cross
Associated names
Representation of:
Emperor Heraklios
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Lord Cowley
Acquisition date
1848
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1848,0601.13
Conservation
Treatment
: 14 Sep 2011