Silver dish inscribed in the honor of emperor Licinius
Item
- Object Title
- Silver dish inscribed in the honor of emperor Licinius
- Spatial Coverage
- Site: Naissus
- Modern Country: RS
- Identifier
- Related URLs
- AKA Inventory # + AKA Title
- British Museum 1969,0904.1
- Source
- Current location relative to findspot: Secondary context; British Museum, London
- Findspot Description: Purchased from: Spink & Son Ltd in 1969
- Findspot Attestation: British Museum Website
- Medium
- object; inscription
- Material
- silver
- Description
- Production Marks: The stamp punctuating the first and last letters of the inscription around the periphery suggests the dish was manufactured in the city of Naissus.
- Iconography: Two vegetal fronds tied together with a ribbon at the bottom circle to left and right to meet and form the wreath.
- Dimensions: Diameter: 178 mm. (approx); Weight: 304.6 g.
- Select Bibliography: Popović, Ivana (ed), Antique Silver from Serbia, Belgrade, Narodni mizej, 1994, p. 343; Buckton, David (ed), Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections, London, BMP, 1994, p. 25; Published: J.P.C. Kent and K.S. Painter (eds.), Wealth of the Late Roman World (exh. cat.), London, 1977, no 10; A. Demandt and J. Engemann (eds), Konstantin der Grosse (Mainz, 2007), CD Rom no. I.7.14.
- Photo Attribution: ©Trustees of the British Museum. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
- Date
- 317 CE
- Patron
- presumed Imperial (Licinius)
- Subject
- Keywords: wreath; largesse; bullion; largitio; Tetrarchy; Tetrarchs
- Honorand: Imperial (Licinius)
- Scribe
- AHC
- Entered
- 5-3-2018
