Fish Plate
MS5696
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS5696 |
Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
Culture | South Italian |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | South Italy |
Period | Hellenistic Period | Late Classical Greek Period |
Date Made | 399-300 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Red Figure |
Iconography | Fish | Bream | Perch | Torpedo fish |
Description | Campanian red-figure fish plate. On floor of plate: two large fish (bream or perch) and a torpedo fish. Around edge of overhanging rim is a laurel wreath. Low foot with short broad stem. Overhanging rim is nearly vertical in profile. Foot mended. Underside, foot, stem and central depression unglazed. |
Height | 0.06 cm |
Outside Diameter | 0.23 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Nina C. Lea, 1921 |
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