bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,1007.10
Description: Silver flanged bowl with beaded rim (77 beads in total) and circular foot-ring. The basal medallion and flange are decororated, as are the interior walls, with a series of tight 'S' flutings. The central medallion bears a 16-petal floral device inside a double encircling border of pellets. The flange is decorated with a continuous frieze of undulating vine scroll, forming cells that are infilled with floral, vineal and zoomorphic motifs. On the inner edge of the rim, and the outer edge inside the beads, are friezes of tightly braided guilloche, the inner rotating anti-clockwise, the outer clockwise. The vine scroll can be divided in to four sections by rosettes.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 4thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: West Row
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 64.80 millimetres (foot-ring); Diameter: 170.50 millimetres; Height: 8.50 millimetres (foot-ring); Height: 57 millimetres; Weight: 627 grammes; Volume: 309.60 millilitres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Painter 1977a / The Mildenhall Treasure: Roman Silver from East Anglia; Hobbs 2008 / The secret history of the Mildenhall treasure; Roman Britain 1964 / Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain (p. 40); Hobbs & Jackson 2010 / Roman Britain Life at the Edge of Empire (p. 151, fig. 121); Hobbs 2016 / The Mildenhall Treasure: Late Roman Silver Plate from East Anglia (p.1, pl.1, p.4, p.5, pl.8, p.7-8, p.10, p.11, pl.15, pl.17, p.12, pl.18, p.14, p.15, p.16, p.17, table.2, p.125, p.126, pl.204, p.127, table.10, p.129, p.147-158, p.150, p.151-154, p.152, pl.262-263, p.153, pl.264, p.154, pl.265-268, p.155, pl.269-274, p.156, table.12, p.203, p.217, p.236, p.237, pl.400, p.241, p.243, p.244, p.264, p.266, table.28, p.267, pl.407, p.269, p.270, p.271, p.279, table.31, p.280, p.297) (cat.10); R I B / The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (II.2, 2414.10, p. 34)
Location: On display (G49/dc22)
Subjects: mammal; bird; plant; leaf
Acquisition name: Treasure Trove: HM Treasury; From: Sydney Ford; From: Gordon Butcher
Acquisition date: 1946
Acquisition notes: Found while ploughing, 1942
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1946,1007.10
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Jun 1997; Treatment: 14 Nov 1995; Treatment: 07 Sep 1993; Treatment: 07 Jan 1992; Treatment: 25 Nov 1979; Treatment: 16 Apr 2007; Treatment: 13 Nov 2003

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