Abstract
The silver plate of the late Roman and early Byzantine period is characterised by formal engraved ornament of an unusual and easily recognisable kind. The motives used in this ornament consisted at first of the quatre foil diaper, several forms of rosette, strips of tongue pattern, heart-shaped leaves, and groups of leaves variously arranged. In later examples the characteristic motive is a pattern of palmettes, each unit joined to the next by the smallest side leaf, which surrounds a central panel or in one case (no. 6 infra) ornaments the body of a round vessel. This last stage has been dealt with by Matzulewitch; but as the examples of this type of plate have never been studied as a whole, they are collected here.
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