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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,712
3RD CENTURY AD
6 1/4" (14 grams, 16cm).
A silver baptismal spoon with shallow scaphoid bowl with carinated underside, scrolled neck, square-section stem tapering to a round-section spike; the bowl inscribed in seriffed rustic capitals 'DIV VIVAS' (may you live in God?).
PROVENANCE:
Found Cambridgeshire, UK, recorded as potential Treasure Trove and returned to the finder in the late 1980s.
PUBLISHED:
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number CAM-DF2EAC; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Johns, C.M. & Potter, T.W. The Canterbury Late Roman Treasure, in Antiquaries Journal, vol. LXV, 1985, item plate LIII, item U.3.
FOOTNOTES:
One of the spoons in the Canterbury Hoard was inscribed 'PIVMVIVAS'. Inscriptions containing 'VIVAS' (may you live) are usually considered Christian and associated with renewed life after baptism.
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