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. |