08-14-2012, 12:50 AM
Moi.
That patera you have shown is one that a soldier would have used for eating and it shows that it has wear with holes at the weakest point of most patera the first two inches below the rolled rim.
That rolled rim at the start of beating it out would have been a flat flange which held it on a tube that was used to beat it out, the flange was at the end of the job rolled to give strength to the bowl and the handle.
That patera you have shown is one that a soldier would have used for eating and it shows that it has wear with holes at the weakest point of most patera the first two inches below the rolled rim.
That rolled rim at the start of beating it out would have been a flat flange which held it on a tube that was used to beat it out, the flange was at the end of the job rolled to give strength to the bowl and the handle.
Brian Stobbs
