strainer
- Museum number
- 1975,1002.9
- Description
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A silver strainer, its bowl pierced with two circles and twelve radiating lines of small holes, each radiating line ending in a group of four holes. There is a separate ring of silver with a segmented pattern on the surface, which fits the rim of the bowl. The handle, which may be partly gilt, has been broken and repaired with three large rivets in antiquity. The handle has engraved decoration, decorative notches along the edges, and at the end a disc, 1-9 cm. in diameter, bearing an engraved Chi-Rho and alpha and omega within a circle of punched dots.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 60 millimetres (bowl)
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Length: 202 millimetres
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Weight: 64.60 grammes
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- Curator's comments
- Silver strainer
Round-bowled strainers of various sizes occur in many late-Roman hoards of domestic silver. They were used to strain the sediment from wine as it was poured into a drinking vessel. This example features Christian symbols on the disc at the end of the handle.
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- Location
- On display (G49/dc18)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018-2019 25 Aug-Jan, Peterborough, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough Treasures: Coming Home
2007 2 Jun-4 Nov, Germany, Trier, Bischöfliche Dom und Diözesanmuseum, Constantine the Great
2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine
1996 30 Mar-13 Nov, Italy, Rimini, Sala dell’Arengo, Dalla Terra Alle Genti
1989 23 Jun-31 Aug, Durham, Durham Cathedral Treasury, The Anglo-Saxon Connection
- Acquisition date
- 1975
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1975,1002.9
