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Pieces of silver plates

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From Traprain Law, East Lothian

Pieces of silver plates
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These pieces of three plates were found at Traprain Law in East Lothian. They were part of a hoard containing over 150 silver objects, mainly tableware, buried between 410 and 425 AD. Most of the objects were fragmentary.

One piece (top) is decorated with the Roman goddess Venus rising from the waves, while another (left) has a dog in foliage. Both of these pieces are partly gilded. The decoration on the other pieces (right) includes a hand placing a wreath on a man.

Themes from classical Greek and Latin mythology and literature were often portrayed on late Roman metalwork.

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