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Fragment of a small patera (dish)
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Lizard relief SM L120, photograph taken 1947, ©A.C. Cooper (colour) Ltd.
Fragment of a small patera (dish)
Terracotta
Height (as mounted): 4.5cm
Width (at half break): 7.5cm, maximum
Thickness: 2cm
Width (at half break): 7.5cm, maximum
Thickness: 2cm
Museum number: L120
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 488
Not on display
Curatorial note
This piece was described in the earliest inventories of the Museum as 'Fragment of an antique lamp (lizard) [AB inventory, 1837, p.9]. In fact, it is a fragment of a small (Votive?) patera with part of the incised, raised edge surviving near the cross break and the figure of a lizard in the centre.
Similar type earthenware bowls or dishes with birds in relief in the centres have been found at Mainz and Friedberg and are now in the Museum of Darmstadt1.
1Germania Romana, pl. 87, no. 1.
Similar type earthenware bowls or dishes with birds in relief in the centres have been found at Mainz and Friedberg and are now in the Museum of Darmstadt1.
1Germania Romana, pl. 87, no. 1.
Provenance
Unrecorded
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