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What is a patera?

What is a patera? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation.
  2. (architecture) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
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Other antiques included an enamelled patera that might have been anywhere between 100 and 150 years old when deposited, and glass vessels that had also seen long use.
Reverse: Fortuna, drapped and veiled, facing toward the left, holding patera with right hand and globe with the left hand.
The first hours were calm: at midday, the sea grew rough but the patera held on.
Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
In the centre is a tripod, into which a priest, his head covered, is pouring the contents of a patera.
Decorative rose patera or rosette in sculpted plaster composed of ten petals in blue on a red background.

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