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  • Top-view of the worn brown ceramic bowl with black patterning of animals walking along its rim surrounded by floral motifs. A small dome rises from the bowl's wide, unpainted center.
  • Bottom of a pale worn brown ceramic bowl with a small central concavity at its base. Its base bears the label ‘25 0.19’ in black, along with an illegible sticker.
  • Side-view of a ceramic bowl in storage, with a circular sticker labeled in black with illegible numbers. A darker strip goes around its exterior and above it are two holes.
  • Angled side-view of a ceramic bowl with its internal walls decorated with black illustrations of animals and floral motifs. A small dome rises from the wide bottom of the bowl.

Unknown Maker, Greek

Bowl (Phiale)

Maker

Unknown Maker, Greek

Culture

Greek

Title

Bowl (Phiale)

Period

Archaic (Greek)

Year

599-500 BCE

Medium

  • terracotta,
  • black-figure

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • terracotta,
  • black-figure

Materials

clay

Geography

Place Made: Corinth

Dimensions

Diameter: 14 cm (5 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

25.091

Type

  • Ceramics

Publications

  • Books

Classical Vases, Excluding Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White Ground

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

Utilitarian objects showed their makers’ careful observation of the natural world around them. Images of plants and animals abound on coins and household vessels.

—GB

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Unknown Maker, Greek
Bowl (Phiale), 599-500 BCE
Terracotta; black-figure
Diameter: 14 cm (5 1/2 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund 25.091

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