Dish
55-5-4
From: Italy | Apulia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 55-5-4 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Gnathian | South Italian |
Provenience | Italy | Apulia |
Manufacture Location | Gnathia |
Date Made | 399-300 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Shallow dish, 2 high handles. In shape it is very small version of an Apulian vessel called a Phiale. Ring foot; narrow ledge rim; loop handles, attached in two places each to rim, rising at a very sharply acute angle. Around floor are two circles of decoration in white: ivy leaves below, schematic flowers above, separated by a wheel-incised line. On rim there are ivy leaves onone side, schematic flowers on the other. Mended from several pieces. |
Height | 5.4 cm |
Outside Diameter | 10.7 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1955 |
Other Number | L-64-566 - Old Loan Number | ' 23-1928-30 - Other Number |
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