Bowl
MS3075
From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS3075 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Toscanella |
| Locus | Tomba a Camera No. 1 | Chamber Tomb 1 |
| Date Made | 250 - 150 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Omphalos dish. Very thin fabric covered with a blue-green metallic glaze. Pale buff clay. Thin crack along the upper diameter. Rouletted decoration around the omphalos. Within the rouletted band, an unevenly drawn groove and within that stamped lotus and palmette patterns in alternation, 4 of each. The base line of these flowers is on a second groove encicling the omphalos. |
| Height | 3.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
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