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Fragment of plate

Greek, East Greek
Archaic Period
early 6th century B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Naukratis

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Legacy dimension: .189 .159
Credit Line Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession Number88.825
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 308.2.
DescriptionJoining fragments of a black-figured plate with a tall sofa rim. The top of the rim has a guilloche. The plate is decorated with a meander frieze, and frieze of alternating vertical lines and squares, and a frieze of animals with a bull and lion preserved.
ProvenanceFrom Naukratis. 1886-7: excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund, assigned to the EEF by the Egyptian government; December 22, 1887, presented to the MFA by the EEF. (Accession date: 1888).