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Flanged Bowl with Do...
The bowl was made much earlier than the cover, probably in the 3rd century AD, and is the oldest piece in the hoard. It has an incised leafy pattern to the flange, originally inlaid with niello, whilst the inside has an incised decoration of eight radiating leaves. The domed cover was made in ...
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Detail from the larg...
Images of some of the objects which form the collection known as The Mildenhall Treasure. The hoard is very high quality. It contains a lot of silver and bears Christian symbols. The owner was apparently a very wealthy Christian, probably someone important. The treasure consists of over thirty items...
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Large flanged bowl f...
Images of some of the objects which form the collection known as The Mildenhall Treasure. The hoard is very high quality. It contains a lot of silver and bears Christian symbols. The owner was apparently a very wealthy Christian, probably someone important. The treasure consists of over thirty items...
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Large flanged bowl f...
Images of some of the objects which form the collection known as The Mildenhall Treasure. The hoard is very high quality. It contains a lot of silver and bears Christian symbols. The owner was apparently a very wealthy Christian, probably someone important. The treasure consists of over thirty items...
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The Great Dish - Als...
The Great Dish - Also known as the Oceanus Dish - from the Mildenhall Treasure. This is one of the finest examples of late Roman silver ever to have been found and it is probably the most famous. The dish is 60.5cm in diameter and the original weighs 8.256Kg (over 18lb). The central feature is prob...
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The Great Dish - Als...
The Great Dish - Also known as the Oceanus Dish - from the Mildenhall Treasure. This is one of the finest examples of late Roman silver ever to have been found and it is probably the most famous. The dish is 60.5cm in diameter and the original weighs 8.256Kg (over 18lb). The central feature is prob...
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The Great Dish - Als...
The Great Dish - Also known as the Oceanus Dish - from the Mildenhall Treasure. This is one of the finest examples of late Roman silver ever to have been found and it is probably the most famous. The dish is 60.5cm in diameter and the original weighs 8.256Kg (over 18lb). The central feature is prob...
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Great Dish
This is one of the finest examples of late Roman silver ever to have been found and it is probably the most famous. The dish is 60.5cm in diameter and the original weighs 8.256Kg (over 18lb). The central feature is probably the face of Oceanus. He has a beard of seaweed and four dolphins c...
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Bacchic Platter no.2
The second of the pair of Bacchic platters. The dancer on the left is a young satyr. On the right is a Maenad holding a thyrsus and a tambourine. Other typical Bacchic motifs complete the design.
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Bacchic Platter no.1
One of a matching pair of small platters. Pan can be seen holding a shepherd’s crook and playing a syrinx whilst a Maenad plays a double flute. At the top is a reclining water nymph whilst lower down a fawn or doe investigates a snake.
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Large Flanged Bowl n...
This bowl closely matches the other three although there is a wider variety of animals on the rim. The draped head of a woman on the central medallion is thought to represent Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.
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Large Flanged Bowl n...
The decoration on this third bowl closely matches on the other three although different animals are depicted. The helmeted male head on the centre medallion is thought to be that of Alexander the Great; he was a Greek but was revered as a hero by the Romans.
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Pedestalled Platter ...
This piece could have been used either as a drinking goblet or as a small pedestalled platter; the latter is the more likely as there is a leaf pattern decoration on the flat surfaces. The stems have “baluster” mouldings enclosed by four outwardly curved, square sectioned, rods.
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Large Flanged Bowl n...
The second of the series of four similar bowls. The rim decoration of animals and human heads closely matches the other three items. The central medallion shows the head of a young woman in profile. This dish was also damaged when found.
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Large Flanged Bowl n...
This is the largest of four similar bowls. On the rim are four groups of animals, separated by human heads. The central medallion shows a huntsman confronting a bear. This dish was damaged, probably by the plough, when found.
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Fluted Bowl (bottom ...
This large, shallow, fluted bowl with two swing handles was probably intended to hold water for washing hands at table. The bowl has alternate fluted and flat radial panels, the leaf pattern on the flat panels closely resembling that on three of the spoons in the hoard. The central circular panel ...
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