Drawings Roman silver patera(e) from Northumberland
Object number
LDSAL2020.42.123
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1806
Material
Paper
Pencil
Pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 264mm
Width: 203mm
Width: 203mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Silver Vessel discovered in Northumberland.
Archæologia XV. p. 393.
Archæologia XV. p. 393.
Inscription content
J. Basire, del.
Inscription content
II.
References
Reference (free text)
Archaeologia 15 (1806): 393-4.
Illustration (Engraving) pl. XXXIII.
A letter from Sir John Edward Swinburne, who acquired part of a hoard of silver vessels, mainly broken fragments of highly decorated paterae including that shown in this drawing. The vessels seem to have been for religious use. They were found in 1747 near Swinburne's house in Northumberland (place unspecified).
Reference (free text)
British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), pp. 90-3.
Reference (free text)
British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 41.
