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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Patera (dish) from Parabiago

Anonymous

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Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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The plate, in gilded and embossed silver, is one of the best-known examples of late-imperial silverware (4th century AD). It presents a complex figurative scene, of cosmological and philosophical-religious value: the triumph of the goddess Cybele and her companion Attis on a chariot drawn by lions, attended by the deities and personifications of time, sky and terrestrial nature. The cult of the Phrygian goddess Cybele was introduced in Rome in 205 BC. to protect the city; was particularly venerated in the Roman world starting from the 1st century AD, it acquired great importance for the pagan elite in the 4th century and the emperor Julian the Apostate, at the end of the 4th century AD, the period to which the work is dated, he tried in vain to oppose the cult of the Goddess to the now dominant Christianity. A curiosity: the patera of Parabiago is a large silver plate with a diameter of about 39 cm and a thickness of about 5.1 cm. Found in Parabiago, a town 23 km from Milan, in 1907 and recovered in 1931 by the Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy, it weighs 3.5 kg.
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Title: Patera (dish) from Parabiago

Author: Anonymous

Date: IV sec. d.C.

Technique: Embossed and gilded silver plate

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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