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. |