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There are 4 objects for which Attribution contains → central
L.2011.1.37 For the sacred monogram in the central discus see to Catalogue of the lamps in British Museum, vol III, 27, pl. 20, group I(c)iii, no Q1761, Hayes type IIB; comparisons in Ennabli 868-76; Hayes ROM 290, all from Carthage. For the shoulder decoration (herring-bone pattern), compare with Q2568, Q2569 (Catalogue of British Museum).
L.2011.1.43 For the decoration of the central discus, see the Catalogue of British Museum, vol. III, group I(c)iii, no Q1759. For the quatrefoil pattern on the shoulder, compare to Q1768, Ennabli type I4.
L.2011.1.48 Deneuve type VII A o B; For the scene in the central discus, a Nereid riding a sea-bull, see the Catalogue of British Museum, vol. II, group I(b)x (Followers of Neptune), no Q886 type B
REDMG:1951.144.1 McPhee and Trendall 1987, IVA/118, 127-28: The cuttlefish, with body outlined in white and decorated with black horizontal stripes, two large black eyes, and a cluster of tentacles (some white), is typical of a particular painter denoted by the Group of Karlsruhe 66/140. Further characteristics of this Group evidenced on the Reading plate are the bream's pectoral fin, which takes the form of an open fan with vertical cross-strokes; and the use of a mussel as filler; the decoration of the central depression with a rosette of the 'ice cream cone' type, surrounded by a wave border; the laurel wreath on the overhanging rim.
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