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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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In the centre is a tripod, into which a priest, his head covered, is pouring the contents of a patera.
Reverse: Fortuna, drapped and veiled, facing toward the left, holding patera with right hand and globe with the left hand.
Decorative rose patera or rosette in sculpted plaster composed of ten petals in blue on a red background.
Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
He met a Malian who offered him a place in his room and put him in touch with a man in the patera business.
The frieze is divided by triglyphs, having eight metopes, each charged with a patera of a different pattern.

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