Shepherd with cane and horn

Unknown (Roman)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
330-340
Diameter:
53.0 cm  (20 7/8 in.)
The weight of the plate is 4,643 kg.
Technique / Medium:
silver, casted
Place of creation:
Thessaloníki (Ellás)

Additional titles

Achilles platter from the silver treasure of Augusta Raurica

    Item location

  • Augusta Raurica
    [Museum inv. no.: 1962.1]Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum (20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst).

Description

Central relief, right side: a soldier blowing a straight trumpet. The scene represents a group of women with spindles.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]

RIdIM images



Bibliographic references

Cahn, Herbert A. and Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann, eds. Der spätrömische Silberschatz von Kaiseraugst: Basler Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Derendingen: Habegger, 1984) 9.

Rütti, Beat and Catherine Aitken. Der Schatz: Das römische Silber aus Kaiseraugst neu entdeckt = Le Trésor: L'argenterie romaine de Kaiseraugst redécouverte = The Treasure: The Roman silver from Kaiseraugst rediscovered. Augster Museumshefte 32 (Augst, 2003).

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4306