bowl

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Object Type: bowl
Museum number: 1946,1007.9
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, both running in a clockwise decoration. The vine scroll can be divided in to four sections by rosettes.
Cultures/periods: Romano-British
Production date: 4thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: West Row
Materials: silver
Technique: relief
Dimensions: Diameter: 63.60 millimetres (foot-ring); Diameter: 169 millimetres; Height: 8.50 millimetres (foot-ring); Height: 57 millimetres; Weight: 615 grammes; Volume: 307 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. 150, 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.147-151, p.148, pl.253-254, p.149, pl.255, p.150, pl.256-259, p.151, pl.260-261, p.152, p.155, p.156, table.12, p.203, p.236, pl.399, p.242, table.17, 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.9); R I B / The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (II.2, 2414.9, p. 33)
Location: On display (G49/dc22)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2005-2006 25 Jul-13 Jan, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past 2005 12 Feb-26 Jun, Newcastle, Hancock Museum, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past 2004-2005 1 Oct-15 Jan, Manchester Museum, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past 2004 30 Apr-21 Sep, Cardiff, National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past 2003-2004 21 Nov-14 Mar, London, BM, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
Subjects: mammal; bird; fruit; 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: 1946,1007.9
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Jun 1997; Treatment: 08 Nov 1995; Treatment: 07 Sep 1993; Treatment: 07 Jan 1992; Treatment: 25 Nov 1979; Treatment: 24 Apr 2007; Treatment: 13 Nov 2003

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