Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/25.8.2

Accession_Number

25.8.2

Shape

Bowl

Shape_description

Handmade

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/4

Decoration

Paint fired red. The rim of the bowl is red. Inside has an eight pointed cross whose spokes reach from the rim to the base. Outside has a red band around rim and a main design of seven long-necked birds facing right with dot rosettes in the field. On bottom is an uneven, eight-spoked wheel with two holes pierced in bottom, one opposite the other.

Inscriptions

Condition

Stands unevenly. Paint is good condition and picture is clear. Rim is a little damaged and one section of the wall has been repaired.

Technique/Style

Provenance

Period

Geometric

Date

725-700

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.08.0004.jpg	Side view of an Attic geometric basket-shaped vase (26.8.1) and an Attic geometric bowl (25.8.2).
2003.08.0091.jpg	Small bowl, bottom view. Decoration depicting birds and dot rosettes; eight-spoked wheel on bottom.
2003.08.0095.jpg	Small bowl, view of inside. Decoration: multiple cross.
2003.97.0769.jpg	Side view of an Attic bowl, showing part of the pattern on the inside and most of the pattern on the outside of the body.
2003.97.0770.jpg	Side view of an Attic bowl, showing part of the pattern on the inside and most of the pattern on the outside of the body.
2003.97.0771.jpg	Top view of an Attic bowl, showing part of the pattern on the inside.
2003.97.0772.jpg	Underside view of an Attic bowl, showing the pattern on the base.