Megarian Bowl
63-26-7
From: Greece | Megara
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 63-26-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Boeotian | Attic |
| Provenience | Greece | Megara |
| Date Made | ca. 200 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Gorgoneion |
| Description | Bowl of Attic form with out-turned lip. Bottom medallion: Gorgoneion encircled by a row of leaves, points out, and a row of dots. Corolla of 2 or 3 rows of veined pointed leaves. On wall, repeated figures: Amymone between antithetic Erotes; veiled woman between antithetic Erotes. Immeditaly beneath the figures are frontal boukrania. Rim zone, a line of dots. Intact. Misfired (or fired in funeral pyre?) to grey except for im inside and out which is a dull black. Written in blue pencil on interior: "Megara" |
| Height | 7.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs Earl Ford, 1963 |
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