bowl
- Museum number
- 1977,1207.25
- Description
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High-rimmed pottery bowl.
Clay: orange-buff clay, brown grits, mica, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: tall, slightly concave rim; low conical body, narrowing to ring foot; reflex handles.
Decoration: Rim, continuous meander. Body, metopes: (A) central checkerboard flanked by kneeling goats with zigzags in the field, and columns of triple chevron; near handles, stars above dot columns; (B) similar, but with triple chevron ‘triglyph’ instead of central checkerboard. Lines on lower body, paint on foot; groups of bars on rim. Handles, opposed groups of diagonal bars, stars on inner extremities. Interior, below rim, zone of tangential blobs; reserved circle on floor; otherwise, coated.
- Production date
- 730BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 18.80 centimetres
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
The dating is based on the relaxation of the strict metope-and-triglyph scheme. On kneeling goats see Rombos 43-5, table 3. Cf. AM 88 (1973), pl. 28.6 from Trachones grave A 39, with two goat metopes.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Complete.
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1850
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1977,1207.25
