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English: Drawing by Raffaele Garucci of the depictions in two large silver spoons of Late Antiquity, found near Aquileia. They were part of a larger set but are now lost. Only drawings survive. They are dedicated to a consul named Eusebius, which must refer either to the consul of 347 or that of 359, his son. Description in the literature: "Two large silver spoons (now lost) found near Aquileia and published in 1792 are evidently part of the sportula of a consul called Eusebius (there were consuls of that name in 347 and 359, perhaps father and son). Both are decorated with consular tableaux: one shows the consul standing in trabea, the other seated on his sella curulis in tunic and chlamys; on both spoons he is accompanied by attendants and flanked by a curtain. The curtain, different dress and different poses all appear in the consular portraits in the Calendar of 354 and reappear on consular diptychs." (Alan Cameron: Consular Diptychs in their Social Context. New Eastern Evidence. In: Journal of Roman Archaeology, volume 11, 1998, p. 384–403, h. p. 178)