Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl ca. 165–100 Greek, Asia Minor This fragment has all the salient characteristics of a mold used to manufacture a relief bowl: faint horizontal striations indicating it was wheel made; incised designs on a concave surface; and no trace of glaze. Preserved, as well, is part of the foot of the mold. The palm fronds, lotus petals and inverted Isis crown, which appears to the right of the central frond, are all typically Sardian Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl 252677 Greek, Asia Minor, Terracotta fragment of a mold fo
Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl ca. 165–100 Greek, Asia Minor This fragment has all the salient characteristics of a mold used to manufacture a relief bowl: faint horizontal striations indicating it was wheel made; incised designs on a concave surface; and no trace of glaze. Preserved, as well, is part of the foot of the mold. The palm fronds, lotus petals and inverted Isis crown, which appears to the right of the central frond, are all typically Sardian Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl 252677 Greek, Asia Minor, Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl, ca. 165?100 , Terracotta, h. 5 1/4 in. ( cm); 1/8 in. (). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926 ()
Size: 1944px × 1960px
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