A LATE ROMAN/EARLY BYZANTINE SILVER APOSTLE SPOON INSCRIBED PAULOS

CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LATE ROMAN/EARLY BYZANTINE SILVER APOSTLE SPOON INSCRIBED PAULOS
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
With shallow pear-shaped bowl and vertical disc connecting to the lower square-sectioned handle which runs into the upper round-sectioned handle with knobbed terminal, the underside of the bowl with traces of chased leaf design, the disc engraved with a monogram within a wreath on one side, the other side with triple-legged meander with similar scratched underneath, the top of the square-sectioned handle engraved with a cross and Greek inscribed ********, with traces of niello, edge of bowl worn through right-handed use
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Sherlock, An Early Christian Spoon inscribed "+ PAVLVS", Estratto dalla Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, N. 1-4, 1974, pp. 375-377 for five other Paulos spoons, two of which are from the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo ship-burial, see R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford, Sutton Hoo, Vol. 3, part 1, 1983, pp. 125-190.

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