Bowl
MS3082
From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS3082 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Toscanella |
| Locus | Tomba a Camera No. 1 | Chamber Tomb 1 |
| Date Made | 250-150 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Dish on low conical foot. Reddish-buff clay with metallic greenish-black glaze irregularly applied around the foot. Shape very irregular, probably due to a firing accident. Interior decoration consists of a groove around stamped dolphin and floral design, 2 of each. The dolphins surmount a bar, perhaps intended to represent the sea. The flowers have 10 petals. Next, a single groove surrounds a central stamped dolphin degidn of the same type as the others. |
| Height | 14.73 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
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