Silvered bronze small plate
Small tray with low annular base. The flat bottom is connected by a slightly concave projection to the central part, which is itself barely convex. The edge of the rim is vertical. The different parts of the object are carefully marked with sharp edges. The rim is decorated with a frieze of reliefs between two mouldings. The first, on the outside, is made of a strip on which square beads have been roughly removed; the second, inside, probably had the same decor, but either wear or awkward execution, the pearls are almost not visible. The decoration is made of a succession of elements, divided here in two equal sections by two bachic heads without neck. The first, facing left, is preceded by a tympanon with a menade. The hair, drawn over the nape of the neck where it is gathered in a sort of ponytail, is also organized in two rollers on either side of the forehead that surround the head backwards, passing over the ponytail. The second head, less clear, is a young satyr turned to the right; the medium long hair is brought back towards the nape of the neck and drawn up in a very thick toupee above the forehead. Each of the two segments is divided in two in the middle by a gnarled tree whose branches are divided into two divergent branches with leafy ends. These trees are surrounded by other cypress-shaped shrubs or surmounted by a large flat corolla: three cypresses on one side of the frieze, two cypresses and a "pine" on the other side. On either side of these two thickets, two animals dart towards each other: a lion facing an antelope with long horns, on one side, a lion opposite a kind of doe on the other. Two trees in front of the satyr and behind the maenad, and a tree with foliage made of two divergent tufts behind the satyr, are also visible. A small square is placed on the ground next to one of the trees.
Quantity
1
Weight
144.3 g
Diameter
10.5 cm
Comment
Inv. no. 93 1 104 3
Container
Wooden box
Material
Copper alloy
Hoard
