Terracotta Megarian bowl

Unknown

ca. 2nd–mid 1st century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Rosettes banded by ridges above rows of stylized ferns The floral motifs, matt glaze, and in-turned rim of this bowl are characteristics of pottery found in great quantities on the Greek island of Delos, an important trading center in the Cyclades. Potter stamps on many of these bowls, however, suggest that they were in fact made by workshops on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor (Turkey) and then imported to Delos. Bowl fragments with very similar relief decoration to this one have been found in Alexandria, Egypt and Tel Dor, Israel, attesting to the wide export of these ceramics throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 2nd–mid 1st century BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Asia Minor

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of F. W. Rhinelander, 1898