bowl;
forgery
- Museum number
- 1904,0204.671
- Description
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Pottery: fake Late Samian bowl.
Dull red ware; surface scraped.
Above the design is a row of semicircles incised, and the same inverted in relief, followed by a row of hatched lines; below, a row of incised hatched lines. The designs are in panels divided by alternate twisted columns and trees, and consist of two groups repeated alternately, a combat of gladiators five times and Eros six:
(1) Two gladiators advancing on one another with swords and shields; the one on the right (a secutor armed as a Samnite) has shield on right arm and sword in left, and behind the other (a Thrax) is an uncertain object; both have crested helmets, but the details are very indistinct.
(2) Eros moving to right, holding a torch (?) in right hand and a thyrsos in left.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 25.40 centimetres
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Height: 11.43 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Roman Pottery
(not known as fake at time of writing)
For the type of Eros see Dechelette, ii. p. 61, No. 353 (wrongly identified as a Satyr); for the gladiators, ibid. p. 98, Nos. 588, 589, and Westdeutsche Zeitschr. 1882, p. 176, pl. 4, fig. 3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1904,0204.671