bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,1007.6
Description: Silver flanged bowl with beaded rim (67 beads in total) on a circular foot-ring. The basal medallion and the rim are decorated with raised relief made using chasing and engraving techniques. The central medallion, enclosed in a circle of 93 beads, is decorated with a scene of a female bust facing right. The flange is decorated by four scenes separated by busts: the first with a pair of grazing bulls or oxen and a pair of recumbent and standing bulls or oxen with tree and basket between; the second leopard pursing a pair of goats, flanked by a male bust on the left and a female bust on the right; the third three goats and sheep separated by a tree; the fourth by bears feasting on a boar flanked by a male bust on the left and a female bust on the right.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 4thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: West Row
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 90 millimetres (foot-ring); Diameter: 269 millimetres; Height: 20 millimetres (foot-ring); Height: 87 millimetres; Weight: 1271 grammes
$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.3, 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.34, pl.46l, p.35, pl.46n, p.41, p.100-146, p.100, p.101, pl.147, p.102, pl.148, p.120-125, p.120, pl.192, p.121, pl.193-194, p.122, pl.195-196, p.123, pl.197-199, p.124, pl.200-201, p.125, pl.202-203, p.125, p.126, pl.204, p.127, table.10, p.129-131, p.132, table.11, p.133-138, p.139, pl.230-231, p.140, pl.232-233, p.141, pl.238, pl.240, p.145, pl.251-152, p.147-148, p.155, p.157, p.167, p.170, p.175, p.228, p.235, p.236, pl.398, p.242, table.17, p.244, p.245, p.246, p.264, p.266, table.28, p.267, pl.407, p.268, p.269, p.271, p.273, p.279, table.31, p.288, p.297) (cat.8)
Location: On display (G49/dc22)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2003 22 Mar-12 Oct, Woodbridge, Sutton Hoo Exhibition Centre, Far Fetched Treasures
Subjects
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: 1946,1007.6
Conservation: Treatment: 22 Aug 2013; Treatment: 30 Jun 1997; Treatment: 14 Nov 1995; Treatment: 07 Sep 1993; Treatment: 09 Jan 1992; Treatment: 12 Oct 1983; Treatment: 25 Nov 1979; Treatment: 19 Apr 2007

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