https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/4a8bf696329e90f15e0446192b33c8b3.jpg 5dc3784cd42f17414a8fc81146983f56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Late Antiquity Sardis IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 0f176d88-1d25-42de-9209-46c7e540914b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Incense shovel with cross Subject The topic of the resource Incense shovel with cross, Sardis, 5th-7th century, bronze/copper alloy, 0.085 x 0.140 m, Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Description An account of the resource DESCRIPTION Rectangular bronze scoop, with socket on back for a handle. On the sides are two dolphins with arching tails attached to the scoop by rods round in section. Rising from the tails of the dolphins is an arch framing a cross, forming the back of the scoop. Scoop, arch, and cross are decorated with small dotted circles. COMMENTS Dolphins were a favorite theme of artists throughout antiquity, and may have been seen as a kind of fish with a symbolic connection with Christianity; the dotted circles were thought to have protective properties in later Roman times. The incense shovel was discovered in a room with two bronze incense burners, and could have been used in the home or elsewhere for special liturgical purposes. Found in the first year of renewed excavations at Sardis in 1958, this and other bronze objects found in this late-Roman house gave a name to this excavation sector, the “House of Bronzes” or “HoB.” Deeper excavation in this sector recovered many of the Lydian objects in this exhibition. IIIF Item Metadata UUID a85cba49-f064-4c5e-8b98-288bf80e5976