Silver Dish
This silver dish, found with the patera in this case (47.100.29), was worked on a lathe to create the decorative concentric circles on its interior. Its precise function is unclear. Objects of this type have appeared among sixth-century church vessels in the Byzantine east, where they were used as patens to carry the Eucharist. A similar example is depicted on a fourth-century sarcophagus from Rome, which shows the dish being used for hand-washing.
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