Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl

Unknown

ca. 165–100 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

This fragment has all the salient characteristics of a mold used to manufacture a relief bowl: faint horizontal striations indicating it was wheel made; incised designs on a concave surface; and no trace of glaze. Preserved, as well, is part of the foot of the mold. The palm fronds, lotus petals and inverted Isis crown, which appears to the right of the central frond, are all typically Sardian motifs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 165–100 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Asia Minor

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926