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Bottom of low bowl
Greek
Hellenistic Period
mid 4th–mid 3rd century B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Naukratis
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: H. .018 D. .082
Credit Line
Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession Number88.1028
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CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 374.1.
DescriptionFragment of an Attic black-glazed bwol with a foot. Inside, seven small palmettes with stems around the center, enclosed by a double circle of small leaves; the latter pattern seems to have been put on by a wheel and a second impression overlaps the first for some distance. Black ware with impressed designs.
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).