Hansa dish

This bronze Hansa dish was made around the 11th century. The surface of the dish features winged human figures at the bottom and sides, reflecting vices: idolatry, wrath, envy and arrogance in the middle. The dish was found in Kuhmoinen on the shore of Lake Päijänne in the early 1850s during cellar construction. The place was a burial site where human bones and other objects were found in addition to the dish, including a round buckle and the trim of a garment decorated with bronze spirals.

The dish is 25.7 cm in diameter.

The object has been 3D modelled.

KM 1232:1

Photo: Matti Kilponen