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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

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

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