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Bowl
Sardis
Byzantine
975–1250
Object Place: Middle East, Byzantine
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 9.5 × 21.6 cm (3 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Harold W. Bell
Accession Number42.53
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionPink clay, thin creamy yellow lead glaze streaked with orange. Sgraffito lines and leaf in center, and border below rim. Outside of rim molded, scratched lines on edge. Much restored.
ProvenanceBetween 1910 and 1914, excavated at Sardis, under the auspices of the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, by Harold Wilmerding Bell (b. 1885 - d. 1947), Boston [see note]; 1942, gift of Harold W. Bell to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 14, 1942)
NOTE: First lent to the MFA in 1915.
NOTE: First lent to the MFA in 1915.