Ca, 100-300 AD. A silver wine bowl with a hemispherical body and smooth walls. Banqueting was a major part of the aristocratic culture in antiquity and required a range of specialised utensils and vessels such as this one. Such items could also have religious purposes, used when making offerings to the gods.Size: L:30mm / W:100mm ; 65gProvenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1980s.