dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1866,1229.3
Description: Dish; silver; fluted with engraved decorated central medallion and twenty-four radiating panels with alternating flat and concave surfaces. Designs incorporate leaf motifs, petals, and stippled circles as in the decoration of the central medallion; on the underside: three incised concentric circles. Restoration has included both new and original pieces of silver; on the back of dish a network of silver strips covering cracks and seams.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 330-370
Production place: Workshop in: Rome (city) (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: San Francesco di Paola ai Monti, convent building (ruin of) (grounds)
Materials
Technique: engraved; stippled
Dimensions: Diameter: 562 millimetres; Height: 105 millimetres; Weight: 2703.80 grammes
Bibliographic references: Shelton 1981 / The Esquiline Treasure (4); 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 (310); Hobbs 2016 / The Mildenhall Treasure: Late Roman Silver Plate from East Anglia (p.182, table.14, p.183, pl.316, p.186, pl.319, p.193) (Rome (Esquiline) cat.4)
Location: On display (G41/dc7)
Subjects: heraldry; leaf; flower
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Baron von Schellerscheim; Previous owner/ex-collection: Monsignor Guilio Maria della Somaglia
Acquisition date: 1866
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1866,1229.3

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