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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Spherical Container
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection

Spherical Container

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureByzantine
Date6th-7th century A.D.
MediumSilver
Dimensionsheight: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
width: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
depth: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm)
weight: 1.8 oz. (51 grams)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.40
DescriptionA spherical container or box decorated with two sets of parallel lines incised around the body, and incised concentric circles around its base. The lid 86.138.1.b likely belonged to this vessel.Provenancesold, by American Colony Stores, New York, to Miriam Lutcher Stark (1859-1936), Orange, TX, 1928; by inheritance to her son, H. J. Lutcher Stark (1887-1965), Orange, TX, 1936; by bequest to the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, TX, 1965; sold by the Stark Foundation to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986Published ReferencesA. Walsh, "An Investigation of Roman Silver Plate in the San Antonio Museum of Art," (Trinity University Undergraduate Honors Thesis: 2010), 58-59, 75, no. 40, pl. 41.
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