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Accession_Number

51.1.1

Shape

Bowl

Shape_description

Flat outturned rim with rounded lip, sharply curving to nearly cylindrical bowl, slightly concave, which broadens and then tapers in the convex lower part to a disk foot, sloping on the upper part, rounded on the lower part, tapered on the interior, with flat resting surface and nearly flat underside. Just below the rim on one side are two holes for suspension.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Boeotian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/6

Decoration

Glazed on the interior. Exterior: thick band on underside of rim and top of body; a figural and floral frieze, between a pair of thin bands. depict vertical 6-7 petalled palmettes, alternating between upright and inverted, joined by tendrils, and a silhouetted rearing lion, profile to right. Lower part of body glazed black, fading to brownish-orange; brownish-orange band overlapping from inside of foot to resting surface.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Surface dulled by greyish-white deposits, especially thick at bottom of bowl on interior, small scratches and patches of wear all over.

Technique/Style

Floral ware; slight cutting marks at the centre of the underside.

Provenance

Period

High Classical

Date

425-400

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2002.97.0230.jpg	Side view of a Boeotian bowl, showing palmette and tendril pattern on body.
2002.97.0231.jpg	Top view of a Boeotian bowl, showing the interior.
2002.97.0232.jpg	Detailed view of a Boeotian bowl, showing greyish white deposits or adhesions on the rim and interior.
2002.97.0233.jpg	Side view of an (upside down) Boeotian bowl, showing floral design on the body.
2002.97.0234.jpg	Bottom view of an (upside down) Boeotian bowl, showing the reserved base.
2004.68.0005.jpg	Front view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, showing a lion approaching palmettes and tendrils.
2004.68.0006.jpg	Front view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, showing a lion approaching palmettes and tendrils.
2004.68.0007.jpg	Front view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, showing a lion approaching palmettes and tendrils.
2008.98.0339.jpg	Oblique view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, showing a lion approaching palmettes and tendrils.
2008.98.0341.jpg	Profile view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, showing a lion approaching palmettes and tendrils.
2008.98.0343.jpg	Oblique view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part, decorated with palmettes and tendrils.
2008.98.0345.jpg	Top view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, showing the black-glazed interior and the reserved rim.
2008.98.0347.jpg	Bottom view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part.
2008.98.0348.jpg	Bottom view of a Boeotian floral ware bowl, with carinated lower part.