bowl
- Museum number
- 1856,0701.478
- Description
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Samian Ware bowl with raised foliate decoration. Made up from numerous fragments; nearly complete. Moulded rim, above the design, ovolo. Round the body a scroll-pattern of vine leaves and tendrils, the leaves pointing upwards; in the lower spaces are other designs: (1) Semicircular panel with four rows of flowers, a lion or dog running to r.; between them a zigzag line and a tendril ending in a bud. (2) Plant with tendrils, ?lion running to l.; between them, zigzag line. (3) Above as (2), below as (1); (4) above as (1), below as (2); followed by (3) and (2) repeated. In the filed along the lower edges are rosettes. Unstamped.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 213 millimetres
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Height: 104 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1856,0701.478