Silver and Society in Late Antiquity
Subtitle: Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780754607281
Subjects: Gold & silversmithing; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: c 500 to C 1500; BCE to c 500 CE; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Silverwork; History; Art & Art Instruction; History: World; Ancient Rome; Silverwork, Early Christian; General; Ancient - Rome; Rome; Social aspects
First sentence: The elegiac couplet which encircles the central medallion of the great Hunting Dish of the Sevso Treasure (Fig. I.1) has come to carry a prophetic tone quite unintended by the anonymous craftsman who worked it in niello-filled impressions on the vessel's surface.